Joseph Ratzinger's Debates with Gisbert Greshake: An Argument for the Resurrection of Matter |
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| Authors: | Terrence P. Ehrman |
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| Affiliation: | Terrence P. Ehrman, C.S.C., University of Notre Dame, Department of Theology, 1018 Flanner Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA Email: ehrman.6@nd.edu |
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| Abstract: | Debates in eschatology have been unresolved regarding the place of earthly matter in the resurrection. I analyze the positions of Joseph Ratzinger and Gisbert Greshake and argue in favor of Ratzinger's position. He defends a transphysical bodily resurrection that involves the matter of this world over against Greshake's resurrection in death eschatology and anthropology that entails the resurrection of a phenomenological but not a physical body. What is at stake in this debate is nothing less than the meaning of creation in God's salvific economy. |
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