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Eternal God : a study of God without time / Paul Helm.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Helm, Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- God.
- God--Proof.
- God--Omniscience.
- God--Attributes.
- Eternity.
- Free will and determinism.
- Time--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Time.
- Philosophical theology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 302 pages)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Other Title:
- Study of God without time
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Eternal God' offers a powerful defence of the view that God exists in timeless eternity. This classical Christian view is claimed by many theologians and philosophers to be incoherent but Helm rebuts this charge.
- Contents:
- The issue of divine eternity
- What is divine eternity
- Indexicals and spacelessness
- Eternity and personality
- Eternity, immutability, and omniscience
- Timelessness and foreknowledge
- Omniscience and the future
- Divine foreknowledge and fatalism
- Timelessness and human responsibility
- Divine freedom
- Referring to eternal God
- And then ...
- Eternal creation
- The two standpoints
- Time and trinity.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 0-19-159551-9
- 0-19-959039-7
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