tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post5583162935186042768..comments2024-03-28T10:44:30.518-06:00Comments on American Creation: M. Andrew Holowchak, Ph.D.: "Did Jefferson Believe in the Afterlife?" Brad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-79937680419080274162016-01-01T16:57:08.103-07:002016-01-01T16:57:08.103-07:00Exactly. Jefferson cites Locke as a fellow "m...Exactly. Jefferson cites Locke as a fellow "materialist," and he believed in Judgment Day. Since in the Christian eschatology there is a "resurrection of the body" at the end of time, there is no incompatibilty of this sort of "materialism" with an afterlife.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-44543053262442115442015-12-29T23:37:38.432-07:002015-12-29T23:37:38.432-07:00Right, Tom. I was just about to make that point. ...Right, Tom. I was just about to make that point. Jefferson's edition of the Gospels is replete with reference to the final judgment and thus to an afterlife of some sort. I think the idea of the resurrection as providing a materialist conception of how an afterlife is possible is an interesting one -- I'm not enough of a Jefferson enthusiast to know enough about his views, though, to comment on whether it plausible he held it himself.Mark D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05000893614655251587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-16125573364805910582015-12-24T17:01:45.190-07:002015-12-24T17:01:45.190-07:00He also put Judgment Day in his "Jefferson Bi...He also put Judgment Day in his "Jefferson Bible."<br /><br />http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2013/01/jesuss-second-coming-in-jefferson-bible.htmlTom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-79436992790358610362015-12-24T15:46:27.772-07:002015-12-24T15:46:27.772-07:00That's a good one too.That's a good one too.Jonathan Rowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079637406589278386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-40058149376162065182015-12-24T14:27:52.581-07:002015-12-24T14:27:52.581-07:00I will not, therefore, by useless condolences, ope...<i>I will not, therefore, by useless condolences, open afresh the sluices of your grief, nor, although mingling sincerely my tears with yours, will I say a word more where words are vain, but that it is of some comfort to us both, that the term is not very distant, at which we are to deposit in the same cerement, our sorrows and suffering bodies, and <b>to ascend in essence to an ecstatic meeting with the friends we have loved and lost, and whom we shall still love and never lose again</b>. God bless you and support you under your heavy affliction.</i><br /><br />Jefferson to John Adams, on Abigail's death, 1818<br /><br />https://www.beliefnet.com/resourcelib/docs/55/Letter_from_Thomas_Jefferson_to_John_Adams_1.htmlTom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com