Resurrection : Theological and Scientific Assessments

by Peters, Ted

• ISBN13: 9780802805195
• ISBN10: 0802805191
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Author Biography

Ted Peters is professor of systematic theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California Robert John Russell is founder and director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, California Michael Welker is professor and chair of systematic theology at the Theological Faculty of the University of Heidelberg, Germany

Table of Contents

Introduction: What is to Come	viii
Ted Peters
PART I RESURRECTION AND ESCHATOLOGICAL CREDIBILITY
Bodily Resurrection, Eschatology, and Scientific Cosmology	3	(28)
Robert John Russell
Theological Realism and Eschatological Symbol Systems	31	(12)
Michael Welker
Eschatological Credibility: Emergent and Teleological Processes	43	(13)
John Polkinghorne
From Evolution to Eschatology	56	(33)
Jeffrey P. Schloss
PART II BODILY RESURRECTION AND PERSONAL IDENTITY
Scripture and Resurrection	89	(14)
Frank Crusemann
Paul's Concept of a Spiritual Body	103	(12)
Peter Lampe
Bodily Resurrection in Luke	115	(9)
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
Resurrection in Ancient Egypt	124	(12)
Jan Assmann
A Hope for Worms: Early Christian Hope	136	(29)
Brian E. Daley
Schleiermacher on Eschatology and Resurrection	165	(20)
Bernd Oberdorfer
PART III RESURRECTION AND THE LAWS OF NATURE
God Gives the Memory: Neuroscience and Resurrection	185	(7)
Detlef B. Linke
Cybernetic Immortality versus Christian Resurrection	192	(10)
Noreen Herzfeld
The Resurrection Body and personal Identity: Possibilities and Limits of Eschatological Knowledge	202	(17)
Nancey Murphy
Transformed into the Image of Christ: Identity, Personality, and Resurrection	219	(20)
Andreas Schuele
PART IV RESURRECTION, NEW CREATION, AND CHRISTIAN HOPE
Memory in the Flow of Time and the Concept of Resurrection	239	(16)
Dirk Evers
Resurrection to New Life: Pneumatological Implications of the Eschatological Transition	255	(22)
Gunter Thomas
Resurrection, Finitude, and Ecology	277	(20)
Ernst M. Conradie
Resurrection: The Conceptual Challenge	297	(25)
Ted Peters
Contributors	322