Abstract

This essay proposes to address features of Time in Science and Philosophy then emphasize those findings in reference to Philosophical Theology, predominately in Theodicy. Those disciplines all have produced a number of longstanding and contrasting viewpoints regarding Time. Positions will be presented to emphasize incongruent standpoints in those disciplines to substantiate the concept that a new Philosophy of Time is needed and how that thinking impacts our understanding of the problem of evil or Theodicy. The predominant linear view of time obfuscates our understanding of Time and Evil. The Platonic concept of anamnesis is amended here as the preeminent concept of Time and also how Time as anamnesis pertains to Omniscience and the problem of evil. Time flows backwards not forwards. We are already completed but we unfurl in Time because we have forgotten how we freely chose ourselves. Omniscience knows this; we don’t remember and now live that forgetfulness. A Book of Life is written, we cannot recall our page number..