What Happens after Death | J. P. Moreland and Richard Middleton
Lecture Title - Symposium on the Intermediate State The resurrection of the body is one of the central doctrinal claims of the Christian faith. It is also the source of Christian hope when faced with the death of a loved one. But what happens between now and then? When a child asks their parent where a departed loved one is “now,” how should Christians respond? Do the souls of those who have died in faith go to be with the Lord now, awaiting to be reunited with their resurrected bodies? Or are traditional Christian beliefs in an immaterial soul that is separable from the body misplaced—an unscriptural incursion of Platonic metaphysics that has misshaped our expectations of the afterlife? J. P. Moreland (PhD University of Southern California) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Biola University. He is author or editor of over a dozen books, including The Soul: How We Know It's Real and Why It Matters (Moody, 2014), The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018), and Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview (2nd edition) (IVP Academic, 2017). J. Richard Middleton (PhD Free University Amsterdam) is Professor of Biblical Worldview and Exegesis at Northeastern Seminary. He is the author of The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1 (Baker Academic, 2005), A New Heaven and a New Earth: Reclaiming Biblical Eschatology (Baker Academic, 2014), and Abraham’s Silence: The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God (Baker Academic, 2021). The Henry Center for Theological Understanding provides theological resources that help bridge the gap between the academy and the church. It houses a cluster of initiatives, each of which is aimed at applying practical Christian wisdom to important kingdom issues—for the good of the church, for the soul of the theological academy, for the sake of the world, and ultimately for the glory of God. The HCTU seeks to ground each of these initiatives in Scripture, and it pursues these goals collaboratively, in order to train a new generation of wise interpreters of the Word—lay persons and scholars alike—for the sake of tomorrow’s church, academy, and world. Visit the HCTU website: https://henrycenter.tiu.edu/ Subscribe to the HCTU Newsletter: https://bit.ly/326pRL5 Connect with us! https://twitter.com/henry_center https://www.facebook.com/henrycenter/ https://www.instagram.com/thehenrycenter/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/thehenrycenter