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...
| Publié dans: | Religious studies |
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| Type de support: | Numérique/imprimé Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2009
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Religious studies
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| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Parousie
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion NBQ Eschatologie |
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| Résumé: | 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 |
| Contient: | In: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412508009645 |