Within a faith tradition, historical personas help to define, or at the very least provide a general understanding of acceptable and intolerable behavior within that tradition. Such illustrious figures may seem palpable in our day-to-day lives because their legacies have endured throughout the ages ...
ion, and hold it to be a usable notion for Christians; but hawing defended elsewhere a physicalist conception of survival of death through resurrection, I will discuss it no further here. 1Another option is to collapse talk of resurrection into talk of the immortality of the soul. ... Thus Pseudo-Justin Martyr says: "Is the soul by itself man No; but the soul of man. Would the body be called man No, but it is called the body of man. ... (How one can simultaneously b e both « at home with the Lord " and "in an incomplete state" is a tension that perhaps remains in the theory.)Finally, the...
