Death, Resurrection, and Transporter Beams
Death, Resurrection, and Transporter Beams: An Introduction to Five Christian Views on Life after Death

Summary
Blurb
What has Star Trek to do with eternal life? It provides the perfect metaphor for understanding the main Christian views concerning what happens to us when we die. In this book, Silas Langley uses the Star Trek transporter beam to explain five main Christian views about life after death. Each of us lives with some personal answer to the universal question of what comes after death. Even among Christians, views differ as to what exactly happens when we die. Meanwhile, the modern secular world increasingly challenges the possibility of life after death. How can we live again after we die if much of science and philosophy suggests that all that we are dies with our bodies? This book shows how each of these views responds to these challenges. Death, Resurrection, and Transporter Beams sorts out these disagreements and their biblical grounding. These differences matter, since they bear on who we are and how we are to live our lives. Readers will come away with a clearer understanding of their own beliefs on this topic, and with tools to enter into dialogue with people whose beliefs differ.

Table of contents
 Chapter 1: Death, Resurrection, and Transporter Beams
 Chapter 2: Thinking about Death and How We Survive It
 Framing the Puzzle: Guidelines for Choosing
 Chapter 3: The Outer Frame: What Does the Bible Say?
 Chapter 4: The Middle Frame: What Does Science Say?
 Chapter 5: The Inner Frame: What Does Philosophy Say?
 Filling In the Puzzle: Five Ways to Die and Live Again
 Chapter 6: Soul-Flight, Part 1
 Chapter 7: Soul-Flight, Part 2
 Chapter 8: Particle Beam: Resurrection as Reassembly
 Chapter 9: Data Stream: Resurrection as Re-creation
 Chapter 10: Saved by the Soul: Resurrection as Re-formation
 Chapter 11: Surfing in Slipstream: Death and Other Dimensions
 Processing the Puzzle: Implications of the Five Options for the Here and Now
 Chapter 12: Dealing with Death: Remembering the Dead and Preparing for Death
 Chapter 13: Near-Death Experiences, Ghosts, and Speaking with the Dead
 Chapter 14: Inward or Outward? On Saving, Healing, Caring, and Communing
 Chapter 15: Animals and the Earth: Toto, Dirt, and Eternal Life
 Finishing the Puzzle: Final Reflections
 Chapter 16: Conclusion: Thoughts on Making a Choice
 Appendix A: Death and Resurrection: The Options
 Appendix B: Views of the Self
 Appendix C: The Timing of the Resurrection
 Appendix D: Glossary

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