Personal Identity and Resurrection

Georg Gasser is Researcher at the Department of Christian Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His areas of specialization include Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind and Philosophical Theology. He is the editor of How Successful is Naturalism? (2007).

Contents: Foreword, Ted Peters; Introduction; Resurrection, personal identity and the will of God, Stephen T. Davis; Bodily resurrection: the falling elevator model revisited, Dean Zimmerman; Immanent causation and life after death, Eric T. Olson; 3.5-dimensionalism and survival: a process ontological approach, Godehard Brüntrup; Multiple location and single location resurrection, Hud Hudson; Bodily resurrection: when metaphysics meets phenomenology, Thomas Schärtl, Personhood, bodily self-ascription, and resurrection: a Kantian approach, Johannes Haag; The same body again? Thomas Aquinas on the numerical identity of the resurrected body, Bruno Niederbacher; Persons and the metaphysics of resurrection, Lynne Rudder Baker; Hylomorphism and the constitution view, Josef Quitterer; Constitution, resurrection and relationality, Kevin Corcoran; Joseph Ratzinger on resurrection identity, Christian Tapp; The rationale behind Purgatory, Nikolaus Wandinger; Scientific insights into the problem of personal identity in the context of a Christian theology of resurrection and eschatology, Robert John Russell; Bibliography; Index.