John Locke and Personal Identity

John Locke and Personal Identity PDF

Author: K. Joanna S. Forstrom

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-10-27

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1441173242

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One of the most influential debates in John Locke's work is the problem of personal identity over time. This problem is that of how a person at one time is the same person later in time, and so can be held responsible for past actions. The time of most concern for Locke is that of the general resurrection promised in the New Testament. Given the turbulence of the Reformation and the formation of new approaches to the Bible, many philosophers and scientists paid careful attention to emerging orthodoxies or heterodoxies about death. Here K. Joanna S. Forstrom examines the interrelated positions of Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Henry More and Robert Boyle in their individual contexts and in Locke's treatment of them. She argues that, in this way, we can better understand Locke and his position on personal identity and immortality. Once his unique take is understood and grounded in his own theological convictions (or lack thereof), we can better evaluate Locke and defend him against classic objections to his thought.

Immortality and Resurrection

Immortality and Resurrection PDF

Author: Krister Stendahl

Publisher:

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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Ingersoll lectures given at Harvard University, 1955, 1956, 1958, and 1959. Immortality of the soul or resurrection of the dead? By O. Cullmann.--Immortality and resurrection in the philosophy of the Church Fathers, by H.A. Wolfson.--The Greek ideas of immortality, by W. Jaeger.--Intimations of immortality in the thought of Jesus, by H.J. Cadbury.

On the Soul and the Resurrection

On the Soul and the Resurrection PDF

Author: St. Gregory of Nyssa

Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC

Published:

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 1622780299

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St. Gregory of Nyssa (c 335 – after 394) was a Christian bishop and saint. He was a younger brother of Basil the Great and a good friend of Gregory of Nazianzus. His significance has long been recognized in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Catholic and Roman Catholic branches of Christianity. Some historians identify Theosebia the deaconess as his wife, others hold that she, like Macrina the Younger, was actually a sister of Gregory and Basil. Gregory along with his brother Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus are known as the Cappadocian Fathers. They attempted to establish Christian philosophy as superior to Greek philosophy. You can purchase other religious works directly from Wyatt North Publishing.

The Resurrection of Immortality

The Resurrection of Immortality PDF

Author: Mark S. McLeod-Harrison

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1532618166

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If humans are not capable of immortality, then eschatological doctrines of heaven and hell make little sense. On that Christians agree. But not all Christians agree on whether humans are essentially immortal. Some hold that the early church was right to borrow from the ancient Greek philosophers and to bring their sense of immortality to bear on the interpretation of biblical passages about the afterlife. Others, however, suggest that we are inherently mortal, and only conditionally immortal. This latter view is usually associated with an annihilationist interpretation of the doctrine of hell and a rejection of eternal torment. In a philosophical analysis and argument, McLeod-Harrison proposes that humans are, indeed, immortal, but not essentially so. But neither are we immortal accidentally or conditionally. Instead, immortality is an enduring property—a property we cannot lose once created. McLeod-Harrison carefully delineates the sense of immortality he defends and provides a broadly Christian philosophical argument for it. The argument, if correct, leaves the recent suggestion that the unredeemed are annihilated on unsteady metaphysical feet. However, McLeod-Harrison does not defend eternal conscious punishment for the unredeemed, but suggests some ways to think about the possibility of a universal salvation.