Is Richard Swinburne’s Substance Dualism in line with the Christian Doctrine of the General Resurrection?

In this paper, I raise the question of whether Richard Swinburne’s substance dualism is, as he argues, compatible with the Christian doctrine of the general resurrection. After summarizing Swinburne’s conception of the relationship between the soul and the body in both earthly life and the afterlife, I highlight the difference between his conception of resurrection and classical theism which underlies Swinburne’s rejection of the numerical identity of the resurrected body with the earthly body. Swinburne uses the term “resurrection” mainly to refer to a new embodiment of the soul after death motivated by reasons independent of personal identity. I argue that the latter is an improper concept of resurrection due to a misconception of human nature grounded on Cartesian substance dualism.