ABSTRACT

This final chapter combines the deliverances of Chapters 4 and 5. In it, the author provides reasons for thinking that the hylemorphic model of human beings best fits with Eschatological Presentism, and this is because it best provides for an account of personal identity over time. The author does this by demonstrating why Body Identity Physicalist positions (examined in Chapter 2) do not seem to work with Eschatological Presentism, even if the problems he points out in Chapter 2 are resolved. Conversely, given the identity conditions he lays out for humans in Chapter 4, hylemorphism is an easy fit. Thus, a coherent model is offered to make the three TAs, with which the project begins, a coherent and consistent set. It provides a model that allows the Christian tradition to affirm things it (largely) has always affirmed without running into the tensions the author examines in Chapter 1.