Beschreibung:
This volume, which includes accessibly written chapters by skeptics and believers, asks deep questions about the nature, possibility, and desirability of heaven that will be of interest to anyone who has pondered life beyond the grave.
This volume is a collection of essays analyzing different issues concerning the nature, possibility, and desirability of heaven as understood by the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity. and Islam. Topics include whether or not it is possible that a mortal could, upon bodily death, become an inhabitant of heaven without loss of identity, where exactly heaven might be located, whether or not everyone should be saved, or if there might be alternative destinations (including some less fiery versions of Hell). Chapter authors include believers and skeptics, well-known philosophers, and new voices. While some chapters are more challenging than others, all are written in a style that should be accessible to any interested reader.
Chapter 1: Confessions of a Struggling Philosopher: Why I Want to Believe in Heaven (but Reluctantly Don’t)
Bertha Alvarez Manninen
Chapter 2: Radical Resurrection and Divine Commands
Eric T. Olson
Chapter 3: Heaven before Resurrection: Soul, Body and the Intermediate State
Jean-Baptiste Guillon
Chapter 4: Paradise… Lost? Against Locational Accounts of Heaven
Cruz Davis
Chapter 5: Could Everyone Eventually Be Saved?
Josh Rasmussen
Chapter 6: The Agony of the Infinite: The Presence of God as Phenomenological Hell
A.G.Holdier
Chapter 7: Love and Death
Helen L. Daly
Chapter 8: Heaven and the Problem of Eternal Separation
Eric Yang
Chapter 9: Two Arguments for Animal Immortality
Blake Hereth
Chapter 10: Evil, Freedom, and Heaven
Simon Cushing
Chapter 11: Will We Be Free (to Sin) in Heaven?
Michaël Bauwens
Chapter 12: Heaven and Homicide
Simon Cushing