Array
(
    [fullTitle] => The “Falling Elevator” and Resurrection from the Dead
    [abstract] => 
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.

    [authors] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [givenName] => Igor
                    [affiliation] => N.N. Burdenko Voronezh State Medical University
                )

        )

    [keywords] => Array
        (
            [0] => Falling elevator
            [1] => Christian Resurrection
            [2] => materialist metaphysics of human persons Christian materialism.
        )

    [doi] => 10.24204/ejpr.v13i1.2909
    [datePublished] => 2021-03-31
    [pdf] => https://www.philosophy-of-religion.eu/menuscript/index.php/ejpr/article/view/2909/version/610/2785
)
"Loading..."

The “Falling Elevator” and Resurrection from the Dead

Igor
N.N. Burdenko Voronezh State Medical University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v13i1.2909

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Falling elevator

Download PDF