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John Hick on human destiny

Is dualism dead? If not, should it die? Dualism was introduced by the Greeks

& baptized by Christianity Immortality is a Hellenic idea Dualism may not be part of Biblical

Christianity Dualism & modern science

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John Hick on human destiny

The human person is a “psycho-physical unity” (452).

Biblical notion of afterlife which emerged at end of O.T. period is resurrection

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John Hick on human destiny

Notion of resurrection N.T. notion in Paul 1 Cor. 15:36-44 Not natural Requires special intervention by God Transformation of person or “embodied

human personality” (not soul only) -- Paul calls the transformed person a soma pneumatikon, “spiritual body.”

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John Hick on human destiny

Future event Hick appears to reject intermediate

state resurrection & defend extinction-recreation resurrection

Aside on Oscar Cullmann’s famous comparision of the death of Socrates & the death of Jesus (1955)

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John Hick on human destiny

The problem of resurrection (as extinction/recreation) retaining personal identity Mental experiment

1. Disappearance & reappearance in new place

2. Death & reappearance in another place

3. Death & reappearance in different world -- resurrection world

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John Hick on human destiny

The point of the mental experiment: To show the intelligibility of retaining personal identity without continuity (contra Badham).