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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824731703321

Autore

Helm Paul

Titolo

Eternal God : a study of God without time / / Paul Helm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988

ISBN

0-19-159767-8

1-281-98102-8

9786611981020

0-19-151979-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 230 pages)

Disciplina

212.1

Soggetti

God

Eternity

God - Omniscience

Free will and determinism

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

""PREFACE""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The Issue of Divine Eternity""; ""2. What is Divine Eternity?""; ""3. Indexicals and Spacelessness""; ""4. Eternity and Personality""; ""5. Eternity, Immutability, and Omniscience""; ""6. Timelessness and Foreknowledge""; ""7. Omniscience and the Future""; ""8. Divine Foreknowledge and Fatalism""; ""9. Timelessness and Human Responsibility""; ""10. Divine Freedom""; ""11. Referring to Eternal God""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Eternal God offers a powerful defence of the view that God exists in timeless eternity. This classical Christian view is claimed by many theologians and philosophers to be incoherent but Helm rebuts this charge.