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2. Resurrection of the Dead

   This article explores the Christian notion of the resurrection of the dead under four headings: finality, individuality, communality and hope. For each, it takes its starting point in 1 Corinthians 15, and from there explores the debates and controversies associated with each basic affirmat...

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   Susannah Ticciati

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Sacred texts

3. Biblical Criticism and Modern Science

   It is no accident that the birth and growth of the modern sciences took place in tandem with the birth and growth of modern biblical criticism within the context of (largely European and North American) Christian societies from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Both kinds of enterpr...

   ​Author

   Mark Harris

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Sacred texts, Philosophy and science

4. Jesus’ Descent into Hell

   The Apostles’ Creed affirms that, between his death and resurrection, Jesus Christ descendit ad inferna, ‘descended to the realm of the dead’ or, more traditionally, ‘descended into hell’. Christians across time and history have expressed particular interpretations of this clause in liturgy...

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   Preston McDaniel Hill and Catherine Ella Laufer

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Being and existence

5. Hell

   In contemporary English, ‘hell’ is almost always used to refer either literally or metaphorically to a place of post-mortem punishment. However, in a longer perspective, the term was once commonly used to allude to the underworld more generally. In the latter sense in the Catholic West it b...

   ​Author

   David Brown

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Being and existence

6. New Creation in the Christian Scriptures and Tradition

   This entry analyses biblical and subsequent Christian approaches to new creation, under the rubrics ‘the good’, ‘the new’, and ‘the beautiful’. The introduction sketches points of debate: ‘new creation’ as realized or eschatological, renewed or utterly new, as heaven or New Jerusalem, and...

   ​Author

   Edith M. Humphrey

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Sacred texts

7. Soul-Body Dualism and Science

   This entry begins with a consideration of what a soul is and whether it is reasonable to believe in its existence. It then looks at what, if anything, the Bible teaches about the existence of the soul, and whether there are non-biblical reasons for believing in the soul’s existence. Some bibl...

   ​Author

   Stewart Goetz

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Philosophy and science

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