Julián Marías on Resurrection and the Call for Christian Salvation

This chapter analyses Marías’s argumentation for concluding that my (each one’s) conscious hope for Christian Salvation through Resurrection is justified as it being a conscious endorsement of my own human reality. The different steps involved in Marías’s argumentation are examined. It is shown that Marías’s argumentation in this regard ultimately relies on the claim that only if the Christian God were to exist and save us through Resurrection would the ontological postulate intrinsic to my life (each one’s) regarding its own indefinite perdurance then be satisfied. It is also shown that Marías’s argumentation involves an argumentative transition from the premises of his Metaphysical Anthropology to the religious interpretation of Christian Revelation. It is argued that such an argumentative step is unproblematic, from both a philosophical and a Christian point of view.