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Personal Identity

Resurrection

(Text as at 16/05/2022 21:18:43)

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Plug Note¹

• This is a sub-topic of Life after death², the others being:-
  1. Immortality³, and
  2. Reincarnation⁴.
• To these historical options we can now add the various hopes of Transhumanism⁵.
• This topic – the subject of the projected 11th Chapter⁶ of my Thesis⁷ – will add interest, though hopefully some of the Islamist topicality will have gone by the time my Thesis is presented.
• Thesis Text:
  1. Belief in a resurrection to paradise has occasionally pernicious effects and is also important to millions of non-explosive Americans. Consequently, the metaphysical⁸ possibility⁹ of the resurrection of beings like us¹⁰ is very important.
  2. This Thesis will aim to prove that resurrection requires substance dualism¹¹.
  3. I will need to ensure I understand just what is believed by intellectually-respectable Jews, Christians and Muslims (though the topical believers are not amongst the ranks of the intellectually-respectable).
  4. Some discussion will be had about the orthodox Christian view being that there is no continuity of matter¹² (the conundrum about the person consumed by cannibals was early recognised), and that the resurrection body¹³ is said to be in some sense a “spiritual” body.
  5. A good place to start for an understanding of what resurrection meant to Christians prior to the modern era is "Bynum (Caroline) - Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200 - 1336".
  6. The best place to start evaluating contemporary Christian philosophical views on the metaphysical possibility of resurrection is "Gasser (Georg), Ed. - Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death?".
  7. One thing that strikes me is that the resurrection of Christ, taken to be the guarantee of our own resurrection, is no such thing in the sense of “showing it can be done”. The physical¹⁴ and metaphysical issues in resurrecting Jesus (or Lazarus, or Jairus’s daughter, or any recently-deceased¹⁵ person whose body¹⁶ is substantially intact) are much less than in the case of those whose bodies have been destroyed. Indeed, it might one day be possible¹⁷ to resurrect the recently-deceased¹⁸ by way of microscopic repair; at least this seems conceivable, whereas the resurrection of a human being whose body has become dispersed and whose parts have been recycled doesn’t even seem to make sense (on a materialist¹⁹ account of what we human persons²⁰ are).
• I have some other notes on this and related topics as part of Philosophy of Religion²¹ and my Blog²²:-
  1. 1 Corinthians: 15²³
  2. Death and Eternal Life²⁴,
  3. Resurrection²⁵, and
  4. Resurrection (Metaphysics)²⁶.
• For a page of Links²⁷ to this Note, Click here. There are too many links, so I’ve not performed an updating run.
• Currently, the categorised reading-list below includes a host of Biblical or theological discussions of resurrection of very variable quality which are irrelevant to my philosophical concerns. In the lists below, I’ve separated out what seems of value and segregated it into items that focus on philosophical matters on the one hand and those on the other that – while having some philosophical interest – are written from a religious perspective and anticipate religious motivation in the reader.
• So, works on this topic that I’ve actually read²⁸, include the following:-
  • Philosophical:
    1. "Atkinson (Thomas) - Material Beings and the Metaphysics of the Resurrection", 2014, Internal PDF Link
    2. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Material Persons and the Doctrine of Resurrection", 2001, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Bynum (Caroline) - Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity: Preface + Introduction - Seed Images, Ancient and Modern", 1995, Write-Up Note²⁹
    4. "Carruthers (Peter) - After-Life for Materialists", 1986
    5. "Carruthers (Peter) - After-Life for Physicalists", 2004
    6. "Chappell (Tim), Chappell (Sophie Grace) - Seeds: On Personal Identity and the Resurrection", 2016, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    7. "Davis (Stephen T.) & Martin (L. Michael) - Debate: Is It Rational for Christians to Believe in the Resurrection?", 2004, Annotations
    8. "Gasser (Georg) - Personal Identity and Resurrection: Introduction", 2010, Annotations
    9. "Heythrop Student - Seminar Paper: Philosophy of Religion - I Will Survive", 2010, No Abstract
    10. "Hudson (Hud) - Multiple Location and Single Location Resurrection", 2010, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    11. "Loose (Jonathan) - Constitution and the Falling Elevator: The Continuing Incompatibility of Materialism and Resurrection Belief", 2012, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    12. "Olson (Eric) - Immanent Causation and Life After Death", 2010, Write-Up Note³⁰, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    13. "Olson (Eric) - Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave", 2015, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    14. "Perry (John) - A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality", 1978, Book
    15. "Price (H.H.) - Motives for disbelief in life after death", 1971
    16. "Price (H.H.) - The post-Resurrection appearances", 1971
    17. "Price (H.H.) - Two conceptions of the Next World", 1971
    18. "Russell (Bertrand) - Do We Survive Death?", 1985, Write-Up Note³¹
    19. "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Immortality", 2009
    20. "Singh (Yii-Jan) - Semen, Philosophy, and Paul", 2007, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    21. "Thomas (Janice L.) - What matters for survival and the logical possibility of resurrection", 2000
    22. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to Come", 2016, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    23. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Bodily Resurrection: The Falling Elevator Model Revisited", 2010, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    24. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Video: Can We Survive Our Death?", 2015
  • Religious:
    1. "Atkinson (Basil F.C.) - Life and Immortality: An Examination of the Nature and Meaning of Life and Death as they are revealed in the Scriptures", 1964?, Book
    2. "Bullinger (E.W.) - The Resurrection of the Body", 2006, Book
    3. "Guillebaud (Harold E.) - The Righteous Judge: A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Everlasting Punishment", 1964?, Book
    4. "Himmelfarb (Martha) - Afterlife and Resurrection", 2011, No Abstract
    5. "Ozanne (Charles) - If there is no resurrection of the dead … What then? An exposition of 1 Corinthians 15", 2013, Book
    6. "Sanders (E.P.) - The Historical Figure of Jesus: Epilogue - The Resurrection", 1993, No Abstract
    7. "Ward (Keith) - The Bad Argument: Review of A.C. Grayling's 'The God Argument'", 2013, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    8. "Wright (N.T.) - The Resurrection of the Son of God: Preface, Bibliography & Indexes", 2003
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • Philosophical:
    1. "Atkinson (Thomas) - Conceivability, Possibility and the Resurrection of Material Beings", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 27%
    2. "Atkinson (Thomas) - The Resurrection of Material Beings - Recomposition, Compaction and Miracles", 2016?, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    3. "Badham (Paul) - Christian Beliefs About Life After Death", 1976, Book, Read = 1%
    4. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Death and the Afterlife", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 81%
    5. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and the Metaphysics of Resurrection", 2010, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 27%
    6. "Braude (Stephen) - Personal Identity and Post-Mortem Survival", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    7. "Buckareff (Andrei A.) & Van Wagenen (Joel S.) - Surviving Resurrection", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    8. "Corcoran (Kevin) - Constitution, Resurrection, and Relationality", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 40%
    9. "Corcoran (Kevin) - Dualism, Materialism and the Problem of Post Mortem Survival", 2009, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    10. "Davis (Stephen T.) - Physicalism and Resurrection", 2001
    11. "Davis (Stephen T.) - Resurrection, Personal Identity, and the Will of God", 2010, Read = 33%
    12. "Drange (Theodore M.) - The Pluralizability Objection to a New-Body Afterlife", 2015
    13. "Gasser (Georg), Ed. - Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death?", 2010, Book, Read = 95%, Footnote₃₂
    14. "Haag (Johannes) - Personhood, Bodily Self-Ascription, and Resurrection: A Kantian Approach", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 27%
    15. "Hasker (William) - Materialism and the Resurrection - Are the Prospects Improving", 2011, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    16. "Hershenov (David) - The Metaphysical Problem of Intermittent Existence and the Possibility of Resurrection", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
    17. "Hershenov (David) - Van Inwagen, Zimmerman, and the Materialist Conception of Resurrection", 2002, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    18. "Hudson (Hud) - Nothing But Dust and Ashes", 2001
    19. "Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith) - The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death", 2015, Book, Read = 15%
    20. "Merricks (Trenton) - The Resurrection of the Body", 2011, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    21. "Olding (A.) - Resurrection Bodies and Resurrection Worlds", 1970, Internal PDF Link
    22. "Penelhum (Terence) - Resurrection", 1970, No Abstract
    23. "Perrett (Roy W.) - Death and Immortality", 1987, Book, Read = 3%
    24. "Perrett (Roy W.) - Resurrection", 1987
    25. "Peters (Ted) - Resurrection of the Very Embodied Soul?", 2000, External Link
    26. "Puccetti (Roland) - The Conquest of Death", 1976, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    27. "Schartl (Thomas) - Bodily Resurrection: When Metaphysics Needs Phenomenology", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 19%
    28. "Strickland (Lloyd) - The doctrine of 'the resurrection of the same body' in early modern thought", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    29. "Sutherland (Stewart R.) - Immortality and Resurrection", 1967, Internal PDF Link, Read = 25%
    30. "Swinburne (Richard) - The Possibility of Life after Death", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    31. "Tipler (Frank) - The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead", 1995, Book, Read = 2%
    32. "Tipler (Frank) - The Physics of Resurrection of the Dead to Eternal Life", 1995
    33. "Tipler (Frank) - What Happens After the Resurrection: Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory", 1995
    34. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - The Possibility of Resurrection", 1978, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 89%
    35. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Personal Identity and the Survival of Death", 2015, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read = 42%
    36. "Zimmerman (Dean) - The Compatibility of Materialism and Survival: The “Falling Elevator” Model", 1999, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 28%
  • Religious:
    1. "Alter (Michael J.) - The Resurrection & Christian Apologetics: A Critical Inquiry Volume 2", 2018, Book, Read = 15%
    2. "Alter (Michael J.) - The Resurrection: A Critical Inquiry", 2015, Book, Read = 7%
    3. "Anders (Paul C.) - Material Being and the Survival of Death: A Dilemma for the Religiously Oriented Materialist", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    4. "Aquinas (Thomas) - The Resurrection of Man", 1997, No Abstract
    5. "Aquinas (Thomas) - The Resurrection: Objections and Answers", 1973, No Abstract
    6. "Bacchiocchi (Samuele) - Immortality or Resurrection? A Biblical Study on Human Nature and Destiny", 2001, Book, Read = 1%
    7. "Bacchiocchi (Samuele) - Immortality or Resurrection? A Biblical Study on Human Nature and Destiny", 2001, Internal PDF Link, Read = 2%
    8. "Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) - The Meaning of Resurrection, Immortality and Eternal Life", 1984, No Abstract
    9. "Bynum (Caroline) - Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200 - 1336", 1995, Book, Read = 4%
    10. "Corcoran (Kevin) - I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body and the Life of the World to Come", 2006, Read = 13%
    11. "Cullmann (Oscar) - Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead?", 1973, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    12. "Gillman (Neil) - The Death Of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought", 2006 / 1997, Book, Read = 1%
    13. "Hick (John) - The Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body Reconsidered", 1960, No Abstract
    14. "Hick (John) - The Recreation of the Psycho-Physical Person", 1997, No Abstract
    15. "Houston (Sam) - Possibility and Identity: Ricoeur and Frei on the Resurrection", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    16. "Knohl (Israel) - Messiahs and Resurrection in 'The Gabriel Revelation'", 2009, Book, Read = 4%
    17. "Macquarrie (John) - Christian Hope", 1978, Book
    18. "Morison (Frank) - Who Moved the Stone?", 2010, Book, Read = 4%, Footnote₃₃
    19. "Ozanne (Charles) - The Life and Soul of Mortal Man: His Composition, Disintegration, and Resurrection", 1995, Book, Read = 7%
    20. "Russell (Robert John) - Scientific Insights into the Problem of Personal Identity in the Context of a Christian Theology of Resurrection and Eschatology", 2010, Read = 40%
    21. "Steinhart (Eric) - The Revision Theory of Resurrection", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    22. "Swinburne (Richard) - The Probability of the Resurrection of Jesus", 2013, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    23. "Tapp (Christian) - Joseph Ratzinger on Resurrection Identity", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 13%
    24. "Turner (Geoffrey) - Varieties of Resurrection", 1975, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    25. "van Dyke (Christina) - Human Identity, Immanent Causal Relations, and the Principle of Non-Repeatability: Thomas Aquinas on the Bodily Resurrection", 2007, Internal PDF Link
    26. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Resurrection", Undated, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    27. "Vasalou (Sofia) - Personal identity across temporal gaps: an Islamic view of the problem", Undated, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    28. "Wenham (John) - Easter Enigma: Are the Resurrection Stories in Conflict?", 1984, Book, Read = 1%
    29. "Wright (N.T.) - Can a Scientist Believe in the Resurrection?", 2007, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    30. "Wright (N.T.) - The Resurrection of the Son of God", 2003, Book, Read = 7%
    31. "Wyatt (John) - Matters of Life and Death", 2009, Book, Read = 2%
• This is mostly a place-holder³⁴.