Lottery puzzles and Jesus' "Return"
This paper is about a puzzle - I'll call it "the Return" - that puts considerable pressure upon Christians to accept a very robust scepticism about the future. Those familiar with work on so-called "lottery puzzles" will notice much similarity between those puzzles and the R...
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Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2009
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Religious studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 45, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-49 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Parousia
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NBQ Eschatology |
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Summary: | This paper is about a puzzle - I'll call it "the Return" - that puts considerable pressure upon Christians to accept a very robust scepticism about the future. Those familiar with work on so-called "lottery puzzles" will notice much similarity between those puzzles and the Return. However, there is an important difference that renders the Return an especially difficult problem for a Christian who believes that he has much knowledge about the future. After introducing the Return, I'll argue that it is immune to the most promising non-sceptical approaches to more familiar lottery puzzles. |
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ISSN: | 0034-4125 |
Contains: | In: Religious studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412508009645 |