ABSTRACT

A central object of Christian hope is that God will resurrect you on the Last Day. If it is really you who is subject to resurrection, then there must be quite a strong relation between you and somebody in heaven (I use “heaven” as shorthand for the realm of the resurrected without any further connotations), a relation so strong that the existence of that heavenly person makes the statement “you were/have been resurrected” true. Let me call this relation “resurrection identity”.