Defending the Immaterial Soul in the Conditional Immortality Movement

This book argues that conditional immortality does not require a belief in physicalism and is stronger when joined to substance dualism. It responds directly to Edward Fudge’s anthropology while defending a conscious intermediate state.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1—Why This Book Exists
CHAPTER 2—What Is Conditional Immortality
CHAPTER 3—Substance Dualism and Christian Physicalism
CHAPTER 4—Edward Fudge and the Physicalist Turn
CHAPTER 5—The Creation of Human Nature
CHAPTER 6—The Soul Departs
CHAPTER 7—The Soul in Sheol
CHAPTER 8—The Soul Thirsts
CHAPTER 9—The Value and Nature of the Nephesh
CHAPTER 10—Jesus on Body and Soul
CHAPTER 11—Jesus Own Dualist Anthropology
CHAPTER 12—The Spirit Departs at Death
CHAPTER 13—Absent from the Body
CHAPTER 14—The Souls of the Departed
CHAPTER 15—Spirit and Body Distinguished
CHAPTER 16—The Inner Man and the Outer Man
CHAPTER 17—The Souls Pilgrimage
CHAPTER 18—Flesh and Spirit, Mortal and Immortal
CHAPTER 19—Fudges Redefinition of Soul, Spirit, and Person
CHAPTER 20—The Passages Fudge Discussed
CHAPTER 21—The Passages Fudge Listed Without Exegesis
CHAPTER 22—The 48 Passages Fudge Completely Ignored
CHAPTER 23—The Physicalist Lens
CHAPTER 24—What Is Physicalism
CHAPTER 25—The Philosophical Case Against Physicalism
CHAPTER 26—Chris Date and Rethinking Hell
CHAPTER 27—Does CI Require Physicalism
CHAPTER 28—Gods Purifying Presence
CHAPTER 29—The Postmortem Opportunity and the Intermediate State
CHAPTER 30—Veridical NDEs and Substance Dualism
CHAPTER 31—The Cumulative Case
CHAPTER 32—Dust and Glory
Appendices
APPENDIX A—Comprehensive Scripture Index
APPENDIX B—Annotated Bibliography
APPENDIX C—Glossary of Key Terms