Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Assistant Professor, University of Kashan
2 MA Student of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, University of Kashan
Abstract
Physicalist Theology is a term that no linguists no philosophers and no theologians presented any clear and definite definition about it till now. The author aims to present a research that is descriptive-analytical and analyze immortality in Christian physicalistic theology. In twentieth century some Christian scholars such as Nancy Murphy and Peter Van Inwagen accepting the physicalist approach to human, tried to analyze and justify the Christian beliefs on human and its immortality. Dualists criticize this approach by saying that although dualism entails non embodied life after death, but the embodied life itself has advantages that according to them God promised to resurrection. In this article we try to explain the most important rationals of Physicalist Theology and criticize them in accordance to dualist theology
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