Idealist Solutions to the Beatific Vision with Resurrection

Solving Cortez’s Extraneous Problem of the Body During the Beatific Vision

Sažetak

Marc Cortez has argued that Edwards’s communicative idealist ontology provides us with a powerful picture of God’s creational and redemptive economy of embodied or physical reality (Cortez, “Edwards’s Communicative Ontology”). Presumably, this would apply to other metaphysically idealist accounts that grant some role to the physical as the medium by which God unveils his nature to created minds. This paper advances two idealist accounts and shows briefly how these account for the significance and centrality of embodiment. Yet, there is an additional problem according to Cortez, namely, that of the possibility of immediate knowledge of God during the disembodied interim state, thus rendering resurrected embodiment extraneous and static. This paper therefore concludes by gesturing towards an answer by rebutting Cortez’s extraneous charge.