Resurrection

== Philosophy ==
Anastasis or Ana-stasis is a concept in contemporary philosophy emerging from the works of [[Jean-Luc Nancy]], [[Divya Dwivedi]] and [[Shaj Mohan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jean-Luc Nancy : Anastasis de la pensée - Traversées|url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/programme/agenda/evenement/gTCnI4o|access-date=2022-02-01|website=Centre Pompidou|language=fr-FR}}</ref> Nancy developed the concept through his interpretation of paintings depicting the resurrection of [[Jesus Christ]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Nancy|first=Jean-Luc|author-link=Jean-Luc Nancy|translator-last1=Brault|translator-first1=Pascale-Anne|translator-last2=Naas|translator-first2=Michael|translator-last3=Clift|translator-first3=Sarah|title=Noli Me Tangere: On the Raising of the Body|date=25 August 2009|publisher=Fordham Univ Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8RGGxTIyTkkC|isbn=9780823228898}}</ref> Dwivedi and Mohan, referring to Nancy, defined Ana-stasis as coming over stasis, which is a method for philosophy to overcome its end as [[Martin Heidegger]] defined. This concept is noted to be linked in the works of Nancy, Dwivedi and Mohan to have a relation to Heidegger's [https://positionspolitics.org/welcoming-divya-dwivedi-and-shaj-mohans-gandhi-and-philosophy/ "other beginning of philosophy"].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://positionspolitics.org/the-deconstructive-materialism-of-dwivedi-and-mohan-a-new-philosophy-of-freedom/|title=The Deconstructive Materialism of Dwivedi and Mohan: A New Philosophy of Freedom|last=Janardhanan|first=Reghu|website=positions politics}}</ref> Kohan and Dwivdei that this "overcoming" would construct a new dimension in philosophy.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mohan |first=Shaj |url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=4sB2DwAAQBAJ&q=%22Gandhi+and+philosophy%22+%22the+obscure+beginning+which+would%22&pg=PA217&redir_esc=y#v=snippet&q=%22Gandhi%20and%20philosophy%22%20%22the%20obscure%20beginning%20which%20would%22&f=false |title=Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics |last2=Dwivedi |first2=Divya |date=2018 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4742-2173-3 |pages=217}}</ref>

[[John Hick]] argues that the "replica theory" makes the religious doctrine of bodily resurrection somewhat plausible. For example, if a man disappears or dies in [[London]] and an exact "replica" suddenly re-appears in [[New York City|New York]], both entities should be regarded as the same, especially if they share physical and psychological characteristics. Hick extends this theory to [[Parallel Universes (nonfiction)|parallel universes]], which occupy a different space to our own. He also distinguishes the theory from [[reincarnation]], where a person lives in several successive bodies.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Hick |first=John |title=Death and Eternal Life |publisher=Westminster John Knox Press |year=1996 |isbn=978-0664255091 |pages=279–285}}</ref>

Other scholars reivse the replica theory with the "counterpart theory", where it is believed that God creates a resurrection counterpart to one's current body, which is new and improved. Although it is defined by one's soul and history, it is not identical to the current body, which [[Eternal oblivion|remains destroyed after death]]. A useful analogy is to imagine a soul as a programme, a body as a computer and the "series of states" that a soul undergoes as a person's biography. They believe the theory has precedent in scriptures like the New Testament. In addition, it incentivizes people to care about their future.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Steinhart |first=Eric |date=2008 |title=The Revision Theory of Resurrection |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20006407 |journal=Religious Studies |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=63–81 |via=JSTOR}}</ref>