Re: Where are the dear departed? (was Re: [asa] Sin, animals, and salvation)

Hi Ted,

I find this helpful and will chase up Polkinhorne's discussions.

There's also the rather more esoteric work by Tipler, "The Physics of Immortality" which is in my pile of books to read "one day" and no the basis of a few brief soundings I _believe_ Tippler suggests something similar.

Blessings,
Murray Hogg
Pastor, East Camberwell Baptist Church, Victoria, Australia
Post-Grad Student (MTh), Australian College of Theology

Ted Davis wrote:
> It's probably worth mentioning in this context, that NT Wright and John
> Polkinghorne are good friends, who probably do discuss eschatology from time
> to time. This is not simply to equate their views on eschatology--that
> would be a mistake--but I think it's fair to say that they do share an
> overall vision of what the new heaven and earth are about. As Polkinghorne
> says in Belief in God in an Age of Science, the "psychosomatic unities" he
> believes we are as human beings "will be remembered by God and reconstituted
> in a divine act of resurrection. The 'matter' of the world to come, which
> will be the carrier of this reembodiment, will be the transformed matter of
> the present universe, itself redeemed by God beyond *its* cosmic death.
> That resurrected universe is not a second attempt by the Creator to produce
> a world *ex nihilo* but it is the transformation of the present world in an
> act of new creation *ex vetere*." (p. 22)
>
> Ted
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Received on Thu Nov 20 13:27:18 2008