Time and eternity in mid-thirteenth-century thought / Rory Fox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fox, Rory.

Series:

Oxford theological monographs.

Oxford theological monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Time.

Eternity--History--To 1500.

Eternity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rory Fox challenges the traditional understanding that Thomas Aquinas believed that God exists totally outside of time. His study investigates the work of several mid-thirteenth-century writers, including Albert the Great and Bonaventure as well as Aquinas, examining their understanding of the topological and metrical properties of time. Fox thus provides access to a wealth of material on medieval concepts of time and eternity, while using the conceptual tools of modern analyticphilosophy to express his conclusions.

Contents:

The language of time

Temporal simultaneity

Priority, posteriority, and causality

Relations and reductions

The reality of time

On measurement and numbering

Time and atemporality

Sempiternity, angelic time, and the aevum

Eternity

God and time.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [330]-358) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-281-15418-0

9786611154189

0-19-153659-8

1-4356-2358-4

OCLC:

191211444