111. An Early Resurrection — A Conversation with Adam Miller

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🗓️ 16 April 2022

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Summary

As Christians, we look forward to resurrection after death into a state of wholeness and joy.

But understanding resurrection as occurring only in the next life can prevent us from experiencing the fullness of life that Christ offers us here and now. What if we looked at resurrection as a process that can begin now as we allow Christ to live in and through us?

This week, we invited our friend Adam Miller to talk about his book An Early Resurrection: Life in Christ Before You Die. In this inspiring, profound little book, Adam shows us how, in a very real sense, Christ can start this process of rebirth now, in ways that can radically change how we experience even the most ordinary and mundane things in life.

Adam Miller is a professor of philosophy at Collin College near Dallas, Texas. He also wrote the remarkable book Letters to a Young Mormon.

As we celebrate Easter, we hope these ideas about resurrection can give you new perspective on the words of the Savior: “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

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0:28.9	Hey everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters.
0:31.8	For today's episode, we brought on Latter-day Saint philosopher and theologian Adam Miller
0:35.3	to talk about his book and early resurrection.
0:38.1	Not only do we think that this would be the perfect conversation for the Easter holiday,
0:41.6	but we recently read the book and we were left with so much to think about after reading
0:44.7	Adam's really unique and powerful insights on the topic of death and resurrection.
0:48.4	We'll let the conversation speak for itself in terms of the power of the ideas of the
0:52.1	book, but here's a little teaser from the book's description.
0:55.2	Along with Nephi, we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, but in all
0:59.9	our talking and learning, have we learned how to live in Christ?
1:02.8	What does a life in Christ look like or feel like?
1:05.3	How can we let ourselves and our own desires die so that we can be born again to a new life,
1:10.0	a full life in Christ here and now in this mortal life?
1:13.6	And for those who aren't familiar with Adam yet, he's a professor of philosophy at Colin
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