Can Philosophy Make Sense of the Afterlife?

In recent years, Christians working in the field of analytic philosophy have also returned with new vigor to face the problems associated with belief in bodily resurrection.

What actually is the afterlife? In Adolf von Harnack’s magisterial summary of early Christianity, translated into English as What is Christianity, he claims that the distinctive teaching that sets Christianity apart from all other world religions is its strange belief in physical life after death. From the earliest records we have of the Jesus movement,…