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    Challenges→The first-person perspective must somehow be transferred from the original body to the resurrection body.

    If psychological continuity suffices for personal identity, resurrection requires only causal-psychological continuity between bodies, not transmission of a sui generis first-person entity.

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    Resurrection(The main claim being discussed in the statement.)
    The return to life of someone who has died; in Christian theology, specifically refers to Jesus rising from the dead after his crucifixion.
    causal-psychological continuity(what might justify holding someone responsible)
    The unbroken chain of cause-and-effect in your mind and experiences over time—your memories, thoughts, and personality connecting your past self to your present self.
    first-person entity(in philosophy of mind and metaphysics)
    A philosophical way of talking about the 'I' or conscious self—the subjective experience of being you that only you have direct access to.
    personal identity(Philosophy of personal identity)
    The relation of sameness holding between a person existing at one time and something existing at another time, analyzed here in terms of psychological continuity

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    psychological continuity(Philosophy of personal identity)
    A relation holding between a person at one time and a being at a later time when the later being inherits the memories, intentions, beliefs, and psychological states of the earlier person.
    sui generis(Used to characterize goodness if naturalistic definitions all fail.)
    A notion that can only be understood in its own terms — in this context, goodness can only be understood in evaluative, not empirical or naturalistic, terms.

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