Jon W. Thompson - The Metaphysics of Resurrection in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

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This book would not have been possible without the support of a great many people. I am immensely grateful to Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza, who first suggested this research project. Rosa diligently and generously guided me through the research and writing of a doctoral dissertation that formed the basis of this book. Not only did her supervision provide me with deep philosophical insight, her example provided me with a model of philosophical scholarship. Thank you to Jasper Reid for reading various drafts of the work and for reliably providing the most careful and exigent of comments. Thank you to Diego Lucci for conversations about Lockes theological outlook. Thank you to Nicholas Austin for providing encouragement and instruction over several years and especially for afternoons translating John of St Thomas together.

I am grateful as well to the philosophical communities at Kings College London (Philosophy) and the University of Cambridge (Philosophy, Divinity). Each has provided me with both collegial and challenging philosophical environments. Thank you to the various audiences in London, Cambridge, and elsewhere who have asked clarifying questions and pointed me to new material for research. My work was also supported by scholarly friendships and colloquia at the Invisible College, the Cambridge Scriptorium, the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, and the Henry Center for Theological Understanding; for these I am profoundly grateful. Thank you to Denis Alexander for believing in me. Thank you to my philosophical teachers, especially Scott Hestevold. Thank you to Peter James Bryson, John Cottingham, Andrew Fellows, Ip Pui Him, David Illman, Matthew Johnson, Rae Langton, Alden McCray, and Louise McCray for stimulating conversations about the subject matter of this book. I would like to register a particular thanks to Douglas Hedley and the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism. You have provided me with a philosophical community that has been a source of significant insight and tremendous joy. Any remaining infelicities in this work are my own.

I have also been supported in many practical ways by family, friends, and colleagues. Special thanks are due to Louise McCray for editorial feedback. Thank you to Martin and Mary Lown for their practical support and profound generosity at several stages of the research and writing. Thanks are due to the librarians in the Rare Books Room at Cambridge University Library whose professional excellence provided many materials to make this work substantially better. I am grateful as well for the librarians at Feehan Memorial Library and for those at the Lovelace Collection of Locke Manuscripts at Oxford. Thank you to Ms Magdalena Fletcher and Ms Mandy Marvin for help acquiring particular books during pandemic-related shutdowns. Thank you to Jim Paul and the LAbri Fellowship in Greatham for enriching conversations over recent years and for hospitality at the final stages of writing. Thank you to the