The "Falling Elevator" and Resurrection from the Dead

In the paper I argue that the "falling elevator" model once proposed by Dean Zimmerman to improve some drawbacks of Peter van Inwagen's account of how a belief in Christian resurrection could be made compatible with a materialist understanding of human persons is not satisfactory. Chr...

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Main Author: Gasparov, Igor (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham 2021
In: European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Pages: 83-102
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Van Inwagen, Peter 1942- / Zimmerman, Dean W. / Death / Christianity / Resurrection
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
Further subjects:B materialist metaphysics of human persons Christian materialism
B Falling elevator
B Christian Resurrection
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Summary:In the paper I argue that the "falling elevator" model once proposed by Dean Zimmerman to improve some drawbacks of Peter van Inwagen's account of how a belief in Christian resurrection could be made compatible with a materialist understanding of human persons is not satisfactory. Christian resurrection requires not only a survival, but also true death of a person, while the falling elevator can merely provide us with an account of how a material person is able miraculously to escape its own death.
Contains:Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v13i1.2909