ABSTRACT
This chapter advances a novel theory of death and resurrection. Because the author’s central task is to explicate a view within which a dead human person immediately reaches her eschatological bodily resurrection (i.e., at a time well in the future), he starts by examining current philosophies of time and whether or not they can help make TA1–TA3 internally consistent. Because the author finds that the most prevalent views of time and persistence (i.e., eternalism/presentism and endurance/perdurance) don’t quite do the trick, he borrows and amends a view set out by Barry Dainton called “Compound Presentism.” By explaining this theory and addressing difficulties scholars have pressed against aspects of this view, the author modifies it into a model he calls “Eschatological Presentism.” With this model, he argues that Christian theology has a way to account for TA1–TA3 in such a way that it’s internally consistent and theologically/biblically faithful. So, Chapter 5 establishes that there is a coherent metaphysics within which one can show that, immediately following her death, a human person (with her identity intact) reaches the eschatological bodily resurrection—at the same time as everyone else.
