God, Eternity, and TimeChristian Tapp, Edmund Runggaldier An outstanding group of American, UK, German, Austrian, and Swiss philosophers and theologians discuss the problem of God's relation to time. Their contributions range from analyzing and defending classical conceptions of eternity (Boethius's and Aquinas's) to vindicating everlastingness accounts, and from the foreknowledge problem to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. The books highest aim is to deepen our understanding of religious faith by surveying its relations to one of the most fundamental aspects of reality: time. |
Contents
Linda Zagzebski | 65 |
Christoph Jäger | 81 |
Christian Tapp | 99 |
Alan G Padgett | 117 |
In Debate With Science | 143 |
Hans Kraml | 157 |
Sigla | 185 |
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absolute accidental necessity Aquinas's argued believe biblical Boethius causal Christ Christian Christology CI-necessary CI-necessity classic concept Craig creation creatures discussion divine action divine eternity divine foreknowledge divine simplicity divine timelessness doctrine of divine duration Einstein Eleonore Stump entails ET-simultaneity eternalist example existence extratemporal fact fatalist argument finite force-field future God's activity God's eternity holochronicity human action idea incarnation incompatibilist inertial frame infallible infinite infinity interpretation interval Jenson Jesus knowledge of persons Leftow logical fatalism means medieval merechronic metaphysical middle knowledge mode Molina nature Nicole Oresme notion ontology past personal presence philosophers possible present principle problem propositional knowledge propositions question reality reason reject relation relative sense shared attention simplicity simultaneity space Spirit temporal theologians theological fatalism theory Theory of Relativity things Thomas Aquinas timeless realm timelessly tradition Trinitarian Trinity true truth University whole William Lane Craig