God, Time, and Eternity: The Coherence of Theism II: EternitySpringer Science & Business Media, 30.09.2001 - 321 Seiten hose who think about time are thinking deeply. Those who think about God T are thinking even more deeply still. Those who try to think about God and time are pressing the very limits of human understanding. Undaunted, this is precisely the project which we have set for ourselves in this study: to try to grasp the nature of divine eternity, to understand what is meant by the amnnation that God is etemal, to fonnulate a coherent doctrine ofGod's relationship with time. This study, the second installment of a long-range research pro gram devoted to a philosophical analysis of the principal attributes of God, flows naturally out of my previous exploration of divine omniscience. ! For the most contentious issue with respect to God's being omniscient concerns divine foreknowledge of future contingents, such as free acts of human agents. The very concept of foreknowledge presupposes that God is temporal, and a good many thinkers, from Boethius to certain contemporary philosophers, have thought to avoid the alleged incompatibility of divine foreknowledge and human freedom by afflnning the timelessness of God. Thus, in examining the complex of issues surrounding the foreknowledge question, we found ourselves already immersed in the question of divine eternity. |
Inhalt
Arguments for Divine Timelessness | 3 |
Arguments for Divine Temporality | 43 |
Conclusion | 134 |
God Time and its Measures | 143 |
God Time and Creation | 247 |
Conclusion | 281 |
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absolute simultaneity absolute space actual aether Alvin Plantinga Aquinas argument asserts atemporal duration beginning Big Bang causal changeless clock concept contingent cosmic Cosmology creation creatures divine eternity divine simplicity divine temporality divine timelessness doctrine of divine Dordrecht Edited effect Einstein entails entity ET-simultaneity eternal present finite Foreknowledge frame of reference gravitational haecceity Hence hyper-time hypersurface Ibid idem immutable implies inertial frames infinite interpretation intrinsic J. R. Lucas Leftow Lorentz measure metaphysical metric motion nature neo-Lorentzian Newton Newtonian objection omniscient Oxford Padgett past person Philosophy of Science photon physical prior privileged properties propositional content Quentin Smith question real relation reality reason reference frame relativistic relativity of simultaneity Relativity Theory seems sense spacetime spatial specious present Stump and Kretzmann temporal becoming temporal present temporal world tensed facts tensed theory tenseless theory tenselessly Theism theological Theory of Relativity things timelessly true truth velocity William Lane Craig