Body, Soul and Life Everlasting

by Cooper, John W.

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ISBN13: 9780851114743

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Pub. Date: 2001-01-01

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Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Preface to the Second Printing	p. xv
Introduction: The Body-Soul Question: Still A Vexing Problem	p. 1
Traditional Christian Anthropology and Its Modern Critics	p. 7
Early Christian Views of the Afterlife	p. 7
Dualistic Anthropologies	p. 10
Augustine	p. 10
Thomas Aquinas	p. 11
John Calvin	p. 13
Rene Descartes	p. 14
Conclusion	p. 15
Nondualistic Philosophical Anthropologies	p. 16
Thomas Hobbes and Materialism	p. 16
Baruch Spinoza and Dual-Aspect Monism	p. 18
Conclusion	p. 20
The Scientific Challenge to Dualism	p. 21
The Challenge to Dualism from Biblical Scholarship	p. 23
The Historical-Theological Challenge to Dualism	p. 25
The Challenge to Dualism from Christian Orthopraxis	p. 26
Conclusion	p. 31
Old Testament Anthropology: The Holistic Emphasis	p. 33
Introduction: The State of the Debate	p. 33
Traditional Christian Dualism	p. 33
Modern Christian Antidualism	p. 34
Some Questions	p. 36
The Holistic Emphasis of the Old Testament	p. 37
Antidualist Emphases	p. 37
Old Testament Anthropological Terms	p. 38
Preliminary Results for the Holism-Dualism Debate	p. 43
Philosophical Reflections	p. 45
The Old Testament, Holism, and Monism	p. 45
The Old Testament and Philosophical Anthropology	p. 49
Old Testament Anthropology: The Dualistic Implication	p. 52
The Old Testament View of Existence after Death	p. 52
Introduction: The Rephaim in Sheol	p. 52
Sheol	p. 54
Existence in Sheol	p. 55
Terminology for the Dead	p. 59
Hope Beyond the Grave; Resurrection	p. 62
Philosophical Reflection: Holistic Dualism	p. 66
Clarifying the Anthropological Image	p. 66
Dualism: The Inescapable Implication of Existence in Sheol	p. 69
Holistic Dualism: Philosophical Implication of Old Testament Anthropology	p. 70
The Anthropology of Intertestamental Eschatology	p. 73
Introduction	p. 73
Intertestamental Views of the Afterlife	p. 74
Old Testament Background	p. 74
Sheol and the Sadducees	p. 76
The Immortality of the Soul	p. 77
Varieties of Resurrection	p. 78
The Intermediate State	p. 81
Hellenistic Dualism?	p. 85
Where Are the Dead? A Topography of the Afterlife	p. 86
The Pharisees	p. 89
Summary and Conclusions	p. 91
The Monism-Dualism Debate about New Testament Anthropology	p. 94
Introduction	p. 94
A Preliminary Assessment of the Case for Dualism	p. 96
A Preliminary Assessment of the Case for Monism	p. 99
The Key Issue: What Happens When We Die?	p. 104
An Intermediate State Presupposes Dualism	p. 104
Alternative One: Immediate Resurrection	p. 106
Alternative Two: Extinction-Re-creation	p. 107
The Strategy for Concluding the Debate	p. 108
Anthropology And Personal Eschatology in the New Testament: The Non-Pauline Writings	p. 110
Introduction: Refining the Terms of the Debate	p. 110
Dualism in the Anthropological Terminology	p. 112
"Spirit"	p. 112
"Soul"	p. 115
Summary on "Soul" and "Spirit"	p. 119
Is There a Non-Pauline Eschatology?	p. 119
The Time of the Resurrection	p. 120
The God of the Living	p. 121
The Transfiguration	p. 122
The Rich Man and Lazarus	p. 124
Jesus and the Thief on the Cross	p. 127
Where Was Jesus Between Good Friday and Easter Sunday?	p. 129
Provisional Conclusion	p. 132
Anthropology And Personal Eschatology in the New Testament: The Pauline Epistles	p. 134
Introduction	p. 134
Relevant Pauline Texts	p. 135
Acts 23:6-8	p. 135
I Thessalonians 4:13-18	p. 137
I Corinthians 15	p. 139
II Corinthians 5:1-10	p. 141
II Corinthians 12:1-4	p. 149
Philippians 1:21-24	p. 151
The Time of the Resurrection in Philippians and Romans	p. 153
Conclusions	p. 154
Paul	p. 154
The New Testament as a Whole	p. 156
New Testament Eschatology and Philosophical Anthropology	p. 158
Introduction	p. 158
The Intermediate State and Dualism	p. 159
Immediate Resurrection: Monism or Dualism?	p. 164
Monism, Re-creation, and the Problem of Personal Identity	p. 169
Conclusion	p. 177
Practical And Theological Objections against Dualism	p. 179
Introduction: The Case Is Not Completely Closed	p. 179
Objection One: Dualism Undermines Christian Orthopraxis	p. 180
The Problem	p. 180
Religious Dualism	p. 182
Axiological Dualism	p. 184
Functional Dualism	p. 187
Social Dualism	p. 190
Conclusion	p. 190
Objection Two: At Death We Pass out of Time; There Is No Intermediate State	p. 191
Objection Three: The Whole Person Does Not Die	p. 194
Objection Four: An Immortal Soul Is Postulated	p. 196
Objection Five: Dualism Is a Result of the Fall; It Is Not Inherent in Creation	p. 198
Objection Six: The Bible Depicts the Dead as Bodily Beings, Not Immaterial Spirits	p. 200
Conclusion	p. 202
Holistic Dualism, Science, and Philosophy	p. 204
Introduction: The Final Topic of Debate	p. 204
Dualism and Science	p. 205
Brain Physiology	p. 205
Psychology	p. 209
The Question of Holism	p. 210
The Psychology of Near-Death Experiences	p. 212
Anthropological Dualism in Philosophy	p. 215
Introduction	p. 215
John Cobb and Process Philosophy	p. 216
Richard Swinburne and Dualistic Interactionism	p. 220
Pope John Paul II and Lublin Thomism	p. 222
Herman Dooyeweerd and Neo-Calvinist Philosophy	p. 226
Summary	p. 230
Final Conclusion: Holistic Dualism Vindicated	p. 230
Indexes
Index of Subjects	p. 233
Index of Authors	p. 236
Index of Scripture References	p. 239
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