Spacetime and theology in dialogue [[electronic resource] /] / by Gideon Goosen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777962203321
• Autore: Goosen Gideon
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milwaukee, Wis., : Marquette University Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-87462-834-2; 1-4416-1218-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (181 p.)
• Collana: Marquette studies in theology ; ; no. 57
• Disciplina: 261.5/5
• Soggetti: Philosophical theology; Space and time - Religious aspects - Christianity; Space and time; Theology
• 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 (p. [165]-172) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Some philosophical questions about space and time -- The Greek philosophers -- Time as moving according to number (Plato) -- Time a puzzle to Aristotle -- Plotinus expands on Aristotle -- Augustine and subjective time -- Is time real? (Kant) -- Temporality fundamental to being (Heidegger) -- Eternity? -- Insights from psychology and anthropology -- Hints about eternity -- Time standing still -- Jung and synchronicity -- Ontological importance of time (Panikkar) -- Is time linear or cyclic? -- Time and teleology -- Primal cultures and time -- What is science saying about spacetime? -- Time is relative -- From 3D to 4D -- Nature of spacetime a mystery -- Travel into future is possible -- There is no universal "now" -- Problem areas for theology -- Dominus Iesus -- Salvation and the liturgy -- Image of God -- Linear time -- Liturgical problems -- Theologians -- Cause and effect -- Dualisms : God as a receptacle -- Time as an illusion -- Image of God -- Model 1: Time as an illusion : time is now -- Liturgical time -- Kairic time -- Sacramentality and the patristic period -- Retro-active sacraments -- Postmodernism -- Application to spacetime -- Spatio-temporal constructions of humans -- Time as clockwork : a succession of events -- Model 2: Time as clockwork : a succession of events -- ; Time in the Bible -- Eschatological and apocalyptic time -- Creation out of nothing? -- Christ-centered time -- Points of convergence -- Time as becoming -- Model 3: time as becoming -- Process theology -- Does God know beforehand? -- The God-world relationship -- Incarnational dimension -- Some weaknesses in process theology -- Time as a secondary construction -- Model 4: time as a secondary construction -- A theological response -- Incarnation -- Free or not? -- Process theology and free will -- Conclusion -- A new concept : spacetime -- Trinitarian -- Incarnational -- Biblical -- Liturgical and sacramental -- Inclusive of synchronicity -- Acceptance of mystery of spacetime.