ABSTRACT
In the present paper, I will follow a line of argument that some people will doubtless consider strange. I want to think about the traditional Christian notion that God is not just the creator but the sustainer of life. I will ask whether that idea might have relevance to some of the deep and puzzling problems about personal identity that philosophers wrestle with in resurrection cases. Indeed, I will argue that the notion of God as preserving and conserving things in existence is helpful in such cases. At the end I will briefly address the question whether such a methodologyusing a theological point to solve a philosophical problem-can be considered legitimate.1
