Heaven before Resurrection: soul, body and the intermediate state

Resumen: According to a traditional Christian doctrine, the soul of the person continues to exist in a disembodied state between bodily death and bodily resurrection. This doctrine places theoretical constraints on a Christian metaphysics of the human person (the nature of her body and her soul). In this paper, I consider seven different philosophical anthropologies and try to adjudicate which one is the more suited to account for the doctrine of the Intermediate State. I argue that a kind of "Compound Dualism" is the best candidate.