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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970379103321

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

God - Proof

Eternity

God - Omniscience

Free will and determinism

God - Attributes

Time - Religious aspects - Christianity

Philosophical 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

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.