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    [fullTitle] => A Problem for Christian Materialism
    [abstract] => This piece raises a new challenge for Christian materialist accounts of human persons. Revisiting one of the perennial challenges for Christian materialism, explaining the metaphysical compatibility of resurrection and the life everlasting with materialist metaphysics, I argue that resuscitation phenomena reported in scripture undermine van Inwagen’s and Zimmerman’s attempts to reconcile resurrection and materialism. Although this challenge to Christian materialism is not insurmountable, it provides good reason to reject several of the most serious Christian materialist projects and offers a reason for Christians to consider alternatives to materialism.
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                    [givenName] => Elliot Jon
                    [affiliation] => J.D. Candidate, Northwestern University
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            [0] => Resurrection
            [1] => Personal Identity
            [2] => van Inwagen
            [3] => Zimmerman
            [4] => Simulacrum
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    [doi] => 10.24204/ejpr.v10i3.2631
    [datePublished] => 2018-09-17
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A Problem for Christian Materialism

Elliot Jon
J.D. Candidate, Northwestern University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v10i3.2631

Abstract

This piece raises a new challenge for Christian materialist accounts of human persons. Revisiting one of the perennial challenges for Christian materialism, explaining the metaphysical compatibility of resurrection and the life everlasting with materialist metaphysics, I argue that resuscitation phenomena reported in scripture undermine van Inwagen’s and Zimmerman’s attempts to reconcile resurrection and materialism. Although this challenge to Christian materialism is not insurmountable, it provides good reason to reject several of the most serious Christian materialist projects and offers a reason for Christians to consider alternatives to materialism.

Keywords: Resurrection

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