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John Hick

John Hick. I will know about John Hick’s views on the body-soul debate and how this might be applied to life after death. Hmk: Read Paul Badham article on Life after death. Starter: Summarise what was learnt in yesterdays lesson about Dawkins. Hick’s rejection of substance dualism.

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John Hick

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  1. John Hick I will know about John Hick’s views on the body-soul debate and how this might be applied to life after death. Hmk: Read Paul Badham article on Life after death Starter: Summarise what was learnt in yesterdays lesson about Dawkins

  2. Hick’s rejection of substance dualism • Christian theologian John Hick (Born in Yorkshire 1922) rejects the traditional belief in body-soul dualism by essentially adopting a materialist position and arguing that this does not weaken the possibility of life after death!

  3. Double trouble … • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oUrr9xOx9s • QUESTIONS: • How would you feel if you had a • double? • If it was possible for you to die, and • to then create an exact replica of • yourself, would that person still be • you?

  4. MEGA active reading … Using the handout prepare for a presentation to explain the following: • Christian Views • Creationism • Traducianism • John Hick on the Soul • The views of Swinburne and Ward • John Hick’s views about life after death • Replica Theory

  5. Evaluation • Answer questions 2, 3 and 4 on your handout. Also use page 96-97 to help.

  6. Replica theory and life after death • In Death and Eternal Life, Hick argues that God can recreate the whole person in another realm after death. • ‘I wish to suggest that we can think of it as the divine creation in another space of an exact psycho-physical ‘replica’ of the deceased person’.

  7. Hick’s aims: • Hick aims to show that the concept of life after death does not depend on human beings having souls in the Platonic sense. Humans are a psycho-physical unity, the death of the body is the death of the person, there is no separate soul to live on. Hick argues that this does not rule out our existence after death. It is logically possible for an all-powerful God to recreate us in another world, i.e. heaven. Hick defends this view with three thought experiments. See pg 97 of textbook.

  8. Discuss. • Hick cites an example of a woman during the war who claimed to have seen an apparition of her brother. She discovered two weeks later that he had been killed in action around that time. • Does this show that minds can communicate with each other regardless of physical location?

  9. Plenary Who is prepared to take the hot seat, to face a barrage of questions from the class relating to what has been studied so far on Plato, Aristotle, Dawkins and Hick?

  10. Plenary • What 3 things have you learnt from this lesson? • You can use the rest of the lesson to start reading through the Badham article.

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