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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451131003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-280-47232-4

0-19-535159-2

1-4237-5756-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GanssleGregory E. <1956->

WoodruffDavid M. <1960->

Disciplina

212/.7

Soggetti

God (Christianity) - Immutability

Time - Religious aspects - Christianity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1.The Eternal Present; 2. Atemporal, Sempiternal, or Omnitemporal: God's Temporal Mode of Being; 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; 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

10. The Problem of Dialogue11. Incarnation,Timelessness, and Leibniz's Law Problems; 12. On the Incarnation of a Timeless God; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

God and Time' is a collection of previously unpublished essays written by leading philosophers about God's relation to time. The essays have been selected to represent current debates written between those who believe God to be atemporal and those who do not.