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Neurotheology and the Resurrection: Memory, Trauma, and Personal Identity Beyond Neurological Death

Grace, Daniel J.

This article examines a problem that sits between neuroscience and Christian resurrection theology: what happens to personal identity when memory is damaged, fragmented, or lost? Dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, severe amnesia, and traumatic memory make the question difficult because autobiographical memory is closely tied…