Alexander Pruss's Blog

Corruptionism is the Christian view that at death we cease to exist, and only return to existence at the resurrection of the dead. There are...

Van Inwagen infamously suggested the possibility that at the moment of death God snatches a core chunk of our brain, transports it to a diff...

There are four main families of views of who we are: Bodies (or organisms) Brains (or at least cerebra) Body-soul composites Souls. F...

Accidents are more intimately dependent on substance than substantial forms on matter. If (1) is true and God can make accidents survive w...

It’s mildly interesting to note, when evaluating the evidential impact of evil, that there can be evil events that would be evidence for the...

Assume this thesis: We go out of existence at death and return to existence at the resurrection. Suppose, further, that: There is a la...

The doctrines of incarnation, resurrection and real presence certainly require us to believe ordinary language existence claims about bodies...

Happy Easter, everyone! Here are Easter eggs in Minecraft generated using my pysanka.py python script (included with Raspberry Jam Mod ). Th...

Consider two Christian materialist theories about how life after death works: Snatching: At the last moment of life, God snatches a central ...

Consider cessationist models of resurrection. On these, the person who is saved completely ceases to exist at death--not even a core of the...

Suppose, as Christian materialists believe, that materialism is true and yet some people have eternal life in heaven. Good experiences happ...

Happy Easter to all my readers! Christ has indeed risen, turning despair into hope, shining light where there was none.

On materialist reconstitution views of the resurrection, we cease to exist at death, but then we are reconstituted at the resurre...

According to kenotic Christianity, when Christ became incarnate, he literally ceased to have divine omni-properties. But at the same t...

I wish a very happy Easter to all my readers. Christ is risen! Indeed he is risen!

Consider this Wittgensteinian line of thought about the doctrine of the resurrection of Jesus (similar things can be said about ma...

Indeed he is risen! Here is an interesting question.  Why is Easter the greatest liturgical celebration of the year for Christians rather ...

Todd Buras has shared the following thought with me. Suppose one thinks both (a) that the multiverse should be invoked in order t...

1. Let's suppose for simplicity that miracles would violate of laws of nature. Consider then a "modernized" version ...

Here is a quick argument that sleep is bad in some respects. Sleep either involves unconsciousness or non-veridical experiences. ...