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In this volume, philosophers and theologians advance several novel criticisms of the growing trend toward physicalism in Christian theology.
List of contents
Foreword
Thomas McCall
Christian Physicalism? An Introduction
Joshua R. Farris & R. Keith Loftin
1. The Incorporeality of the Soul in Patristic Thought
Paul L. Gavrilyuk
2. Christian Physicalism: Against the Medieval Divines
Thomas Atkinson
3. Substance Dualism and the Diachronic/Synchronic Unity of Consciousness
J.P. Moreland
4. Christian Physicalism and Our Knowledge of God
Angus Menuge
5. Physicalism, Divine Eternality, and Life Everlasting
R. Keith Loftin and R.T. Mullins
6. Holy Saturday and Christian Theological Anthropology
Jason McMartin
7. Physicalism, the Incarnation, and Holy Saturday: A Conversation with Karl Barth
Marc Cortez
8. Physicalist Christology and the Two Sons Worry
R.T. Mullins
9. Physicalism and the Death of Christ
Charles Taliaferro
10. Christian Materialism Entails Pelagianism
Matthew J. Hart
11. Sanctification and Physicalism
R. Scott Smith
12. Neuroscience, Spiritual Formation, and Bodily Souls: A Critique of Christian Physicalism
Brandon Rickabaugh & C
About the author
Joshua R. Farris is an Anglican Priest, Canon Theologian, Visiting Research Prof. at Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany, and Professor at Kairos University, USA. He is the Director of Soul Science Ministries. He has recently published The Creation of Self and co-editor of The Origin of the Soul.Joshua R. Farris is an Anglican Priest, Canon Theologian, Visiting Research Prof. at Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany, and Professor at Kairos University, USA. He is the Director of Soul Science Ministries. He has recently published The Creation of Self and co-editor of The Origin of the Soul.R. Scott Smith is professor of philosophy and ethics at Biola University.Charles Taliaferro is professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College.
Summary
In this volume, philosophers and theologians advance several novel criticisms of the growing trend toward physicalism in Christian theology.
