Table of Contents

List of Contributors T. Ryan Byerly and Eric J. Silverman: Introduction Part I: The Basic Nature of Paradise 1: Eric J. Silverman: Conceiving Heaven as a Dynamic Rather than Static Existence 2: Katherin Rogers: Anselmian Mediations on Heaven Part II: The Epistemology of Paradise 3: Ted Poston: Will there be Skeptics in Heaven? 4: Jonathan L. Kvanvig: The Cognitive Dimension of Heavenly Bliss Part III: Virtue in Paradise 5: Rachel Lu: The Virtues in Heaven 6: Timothy Pawl and Kevin Timpe: Paradise and Growing in Virtue Part IV: Paradise and Responding to Evil 7: Adam C. Pelser: Heavenly Sadness: On the Value of Negative Emotions in Paradise 8: T. Ryan Byerly: Virtues of Repair in Paradise Part V: The Social and Political Philosophy of Paradise 9: Shawn Graves, Blake Hereth, and Tyler M. John: In Defense of Animal Universalism 10: Robert Audi: Personhood, Embodiment, and Survival: Speculations on Life after (Biological) Death Part VI: Resurrection in Paradise 11: Eric T. Yang and Stephen T. Davis: Composition and the Will of God: Reconsidering Resurrection by Reassembly 12: Christopher M. Brown: Some Advantages for a Thomistic Solution to the Problem of Personal Identity Beyond Death 13: Hud Hudson: The Resurrection and Hypertime Part VII: Freedom in Paradise 14: Briane P. Boeninger and Robert Garcia: Resting on Your Laurels: Deserting Desert in Paradise? 15: Richard Tamburro: The Possibility and Scope of Significant Heavenly Freedom VIII: The Desirability of Paradise 16: Jerry L. Walls: Hume, Happiness, Heaven, and Home 17: Richard Swinburne: Why the Life of Heaven is Supremely Worth Living

About the Author

T. Ryan Byerly is a Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Sheffield. His primary research interests are in Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology, and Virtue Ethics. He is the author of The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence: A Time-Ordering Account (Bloomsbury, 2014). Eric J. Silverman is an Assistant Professor at Christopher Newport University. His research interests include Medieval philosophy, ethics, philosophy of religion, history of philosophy, and popular culture and philosophy.

Reviews

There is much erudition, insight and precise and careful reasoning on display throughout. * Philip G. Ziegler, International Journal of Systematic Theology *
T. Ryan Byerly and Eric J. Silverman have edited an impressive collection of 17 new essays dealing with these and other problems related to the possibility and desirability of Heavenly existence, its presuppositions, and its implications...All of the essays are of the highest standard of analytic theology, and I can only recommend the book to anyone interested in one of the most important themes of theological reflection concerning the Christian hope for the world to come. * Benedikt Paul Goecke, Reading Religion *
The contributions to this volume should provide rewarding food for thought about a wide range of issues, to theists and non-theists alike. * Evan Fales, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *