Death, Resurrection, and Transporter Beams

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Death, Resurrection, and Transporter Beams: An Introduction to Five Christian Views on Life after Death

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What has Star Trek to do with eternal life? It provides the perfect metaphor for understanding the main Christian views concerning what happens to us when we die. In this book, Silas Langley uses the Star Trek transporter beam to explain five main Christian views about life after death. Each of us lives with some personal answer to the universal question of what comes after death. Even among Christians, views differ as to what exactly happens when we die. Meanwhile, the modern secular world increasingly challenges the possibility of life after death. How can we live again after we die if much of science and philosophy suggests that all that we are dies with our bodies? This book shows how each of these views responds to these challenges. Death, Resurrection, and Transporter Beams sorts out these disagreements and their biblical grounding. These differences matter, since they bear on who we are and how we are to live our lives. Readers will come away with a clearer understanding of their own beliefs on this topic, and with tools to enter into dialogue with people whose beliefs differ.
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Table of contents

  • Chapter 1: Death, Resurrection, and Transporter Beams
  • Chapter 2: Thinking about Death and How We Survive It
  • Framing the Puzzle: Guidelines for Choosing
  • Chapter 3: The Outer Frame: What Does the Bible Say?
  • Chapter 4: The Middle Frame: What Does Science Say?
  • Chapter 5: The Inner Frame: What Does Philosophy Say?
  • Filling In the Puzzle: Five Ways to Die and Live Again
  • Chapter 6: Soul-Flight, Part 1
  • Chapter 7: Soul-Flight, Part 2
  • Chapter 8: Particle Beam: Resurrection as Reassembly
  • Chapter 9: Data Stream: Resurrection as Re-creation
  • Chapter 10: Saved by the Soul: Resurrection as Re-formation
  • Chapter 11: Surfing in Slipstream: Death and Other Dimensions
  • Processing the Puzzle: Implications of the Five Options for the Here and Now
  • Chapter 12: Dealing with Death: Remembering the Dead and Preparing for Death
  • Chapter 13: Near-Death Experiences, Ghosts, and Speaking with the Dead
  • Chapter 14: Inward or Outward? On Saving, Healing, Caring, and Communing
  • Chapter 15: Animals and the Earth: Toto, Dirt, and Eternal Life
  • Finishing the Puzzle: Final Reflections
  • Chapter 16: Conclusion: Thoughts on Making a Choice
  • Appendix A: Death and Resurrection: The Options
  • Appendix B: Views of the Self
  • Appendix C: The Timing of the Resurrection
  • Appendix D: Glossary
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