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Resurrection, the general doctrine rather than the specific claim about one man's own return, which is this atlas's separate standing-contrast essay on The Resurrection of Jesus and is not revisited here, is formally linked to three religions in this atlas: Christianity, Islam and Judaism, all three links carrying no further comment at the religion level. The three hold the identical doctrine with three very different textures of live debate behind it.

Settled, Standard, and Genuinely Contested

Judaism's is textually anchored and largely settled: "a Pharisaic doctrine before it is a Christian one, denied by the Sadducees, affirmed in the second blessing of the Amidah and in Maimonides' principles." Islam's is stated as simply standard, "bodily resurrection at the Day of Judgement is standard in Islam," with no internal dispute recorded on its own page at all. Christianity carries by far the richest live argument: whether the interval between death and resurrection is a conscious wait (the mainstream view) or an unconscious sleep, held by Seventh-day Adventists, Tyndale and a number of the more radical Reformers, sharpened further by Jehovah's Witnesses' distinctly stronger claim "that the person ceases to exist altogether at death and is recreated at the resurrection," which its own description insists is a different claim that "should not" be confused with the sleep view though it "regularly" is.

Confirmed on the Link Itself

The internal Christian difference is not only in the description; it shows up in the atlas's own record. Seventh-day Adventism's own link to Resurrection carries a distinct account rather than a plain affirmation, the closed vocabulary this atlas reserves for a body that holds a genuinely different account of a claim rather than simply affirming or rejecting it. One doctrine, shared by three religions, held with three very different amounts of live argument attached.

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• ResurrectionLast ThingsThe doctrine itself; three religions counted, holding it with three very different amounts of live internal argument
• JudaismAbrahamic (Monotheistic)Textually anchored and largely settled: the Amidah and Maimonides' principles
• IslamAbrahamic (Monotheistic)Stated as simply standard doctrine, with no internal dispute recorded
• ChristianityAbrahamic (Monotheistic)The richest live internal argument of the three: conscious wait against unconscious sleep against Jehovah's Witnesses' stronger annihilation-then-recreation claim