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THE “FALLING ELEVATOR” AND RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD

EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. 2021. Vol. 13. No. 1. P. 83–102.
Gasparov I.

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 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 her own death.

Research target: Philosophy, Ethics, and Religious Studies
Language: English
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Keywords: personal identityтождество личностиАналитическая философия религииAnalytical philosophy of religionMetaphysics of Resurrectionметафизика воскресения мертвых
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