The “Falling Elevator” and Resurrection from the Dead
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https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v13i1.2909Keywords:
Falling elevator, Christian Resurrection, materialist metaphysics of human persons Christian materialism.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.
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