Glory of the Flesh and Renewal of the World. One Response to Physics and the Resurrection of the Body

Glory of the Flesh and Renewal of the World. A response to Physics and the Resurrection of the Body, by Stephen Barr
seminar of the group Science, Reason and Faith.
José Ignacio Murillo. Pamplona, September 26, 2025.

José Ignacio Murillo is Full Professor in the department of Philosophy at the School of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Navarra. director of the research group Mind-Brain of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS). Member of the group Science, Reason and Faith (CRYF). He has published about twenty books, more than 50 publications in high impact journals, more than fifty book chapters and more than a hundred contributions to conferences. He has a long professor career: he has supervised a dozen doctoral thesis and has given dozens of conferences and seminars in Spain and abroad. His current line of research is entitled: "Mind-brain: biology and subjectivity in contemporary Philosophy and neuroscience".

summary

In the last Mariano Artigas Memorial Lecture, Stephen Barr asked about the physics of "the new heavens and the new earth". Central to his reflection was the condition of resurrected bodies. Following some of Ratzinger's suggestions in his Eschatology, Barr proposed to consider the Eucharistic presence of Christ together with that of the resurrected bodies. In this seminar I will present some objections to the thesis he defended. Furthermore, while acknowledging the difficulty of conceiving of resurrected bodies, I will propose that it is in the light of these that the physics of the future world must be conceived and that a final solution to the relationship between spirit and subject can be expected.