Heavenly Healing of Disability and the Problem of Preserving Identity through Radical Change
The traditional elimination view affirms that people with intellectual disabilities will be healed in heaven when God restores all things to what they were meant to be. Several contemporary scholars, however, have put forth a revisionist retention view claiming that people with intellectual disabili...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2022
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Philosophy & theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 34, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 265-296 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Eschatology
/ Mental handicap
/ Healing
/ Person
/ Continuity
/ Development
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| RelBib Classification: | NBE Anthropology NBQ Eschatology VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | The traditional elimination view affirms that people with intellectual disabilities will be healed in heaven when God restores all things to what they were meant to be. Several contemporary scholars, however, have put forth a revisionist retention view claiming that people with intellectual disabilities will not be healed in heaven. While the elimination view has strong biblical and theological credentials, it faces a significant philosophical difficulty. Heaven must maintain identity so that individuals exist as the same people they were in life. But post-mortem healing appears to disrupt the identity of people with intellectual disabilities. In this paper I reject this charge. I argue that for individuals with mild or moderate intellectual disabilities heaven preserves personal identity, while for individuals with profound intellectual disabilities heaven creates personal identity. These conclusions rest on an emergentist anthropology which I describe. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-828X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophy & theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/philtheol2023330157 |