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    It is not the case that Materialism is not necessarily hostile to the prospects of an afterlife.

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    • 1.Personal identity over time requires psychological or material continuity, and a resurrected body assembled from dispersed matter breaks both chains.
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    • 2.If the post-resurrection body is numerically distinct from the original, resurrection creates a replica but does not constitute survival of the original person.
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    • 3.Materialist accounts therefore face the 'replication problem' (van Inwagen, Parfit) that dualist soul-continuity theories structurally avoid.
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    • 1.The biblical resurrection tradition is historically inseparable from an imminent eschatology that presupposes no extended temporal gap between death and resurrection.
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    • 2.Materialist resurrection requires the person to wholly cease to exist at death, meaning there is no subject who persists to be raised, only a later duplicate.
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    • 3.Stripping dualism from these traditions does not make materialism compatible with survival; it reveals that survival in any robust sense requires a continuously existing soul-like entity.
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    • 1.Historically, the standard view of the afterlife in the major theistic traditions involves the resurrection of bodies.
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    • 2.Many theologians and some philosophers argue that dualism is a Platonic import into theistic traditions.
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    • 3.It is more in keeping with the Hebrew, Christian, and Islamic stress on bodily life to understand the afterlife in materialist rather than dualist terms.
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