I Am My Body? Physicalism, Identity, and the Metaphysics of the Incarnation

Thomas Harley McCall Jr

doi:10.5840/pc201517113

I Am My Body? Physicalism, Identity, and the Metaphysics of the Incarnation

Thomas Harley McCall Jr

School of Divinity

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Trenton Merricks argues that the Incarnation gives us strong reasons to embrace physicalism. I argue that these reasons are not so strong, and that there are important questions remaining about both the coherence and the orthodoxy of physicalist Christology.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	205-211
Journal	Philosophia Christi
Volume	17
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5840/pc201517113
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2015

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