God and time : essays on the divine nature / edited by Gregory E. Ganssle and David M. Woodruff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ganssle, Gregory E., 1956-

Woodruff, David M., 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God (Christianity)--Immutability.

Time--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Physical Description:

xi, 252 p.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Throughout the history of philosophical theology, scholars have reflected on the relationship between God and time. In the Western religious tradition, God has been thought to be eternal, in the sense that God is outside time. But many thinkers today hold that while God is everlasting, inthat there was no beginning to God's existence nor will he ever cease existing, God exists within Time.In God and Time, Gregory E. Ganssle and David Woodruff have brought together 12 previously unpublished essays from leading philosophers on God's relation to time. Including work from today's most prominent thinkers in this fascinating field, God and Time represents the current state of thediscussion between those who believe God to be atemporal (experiencing everything in the eternal now) and those who believe God to be temporal (experiencing events sequentially, somewhat as we do).This collection highlights such issues as how the nature of time is relevant to the question of whether God is temporal and how God's other attributes are compatible with his mode of temporal being. By focusing on the metaphysical aspects of time and temporal existence, God and Time makes a uniquecontribution to the current resurgence of interest in philosophical theology in the analytic tradition.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

Part I: God's Eternal Nature

1.The Eternal Present

2. Atemporal, Sempiternal, or Omnitemporal: God's Temporal Mode of Being

Part II: God, Time, and Creation

3. Divine Foreknowledge and the Arrow of Time: On the Impossibility of Retrocausation

4. God inside Time and before Creation

5. Time Was Created by a Timeless Point: An Atheist Explanation of Spacetime

6. The Elimination of Absolute Time by the Special Theory of Relativity

Part III: The Nature of Divine Knowledge

7. Timelessness out of Mind: On the Alleged Incoherence of Divine Timelessness

8. Direct Awareness and God's Experience of a Temporal Now

9. The Absence of a Timeless God

Part IV: God's Relation to the World

10. The Problem of Dialogue

11. Incarnation,Timelessness, and Leibniz's Law Problems

12. On the Incarnation of a Timeless God

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780195351590

0195351592

OCLC:

935260498