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Joseph Ratzinger's Debates with Gisbert Greshake: An Argument for the Resurrection of Matter
Author(s) -
Ehrman Terrence P.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/moth.12493
Subject(s) - eschatology , philosophy , nothing , argument (complex analysis) , meaning (existential) , theology , epistemology , chemistry , biochemistry
Debates in eschatology have been unresolved regarding the place of earthly matter in the resurrection. I analyze the positions of Joseph Ratzinger and Gisbert Greshake and argue in favor of Ratzinger's position. He defends a transphysical bodily resurrection that involves the matter of this world over against Greshake's resurrection in death eschatology and anthropology that entails the resurrection of a phenomenological but not a physical body. What is at stake in this debate is nothing less than the meaning of creation in God's salvific economy.