God and Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God and Time write by Gregory E. Ganssle. This book was released on 2001-09-28. God and Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Editor Gregory Ganssle calls on four Christian philosophers to present and defend their views on the place of God in a time-bound universe. The positions taken up here include divine timeless eternity, eternity as relative timelessness, timelessness and omnitemporality, and unqualified divine temporality.
Time and Eternity
Time and Eternity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Time and Eternity write by William Lane Craig. This book was released on 2001-03-01. Time and Eternity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This remarkable work offers an analytical exploration of the nature of divine eternity and God's relationship to time.
God, Eternity, and Time
God, Eternity, and Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God, Eternity, and Time write by Edmund Runggaldier. This book was released on 2016-12-05. God, Eternity, and Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "God is eternal" is a standard belief of all theistic religions. But what does it mean? If, on the one hand, "eternal" means timeless, how can God hear the prayers of the faithful at some point of time? And how can a timeless God act in order to answer the prayers? If God knows what I will do tomorrow from all eternity, how can I be free to choose what to do? If, on the other hand, "eternal" means everlasting, does that not jeopardize divine majesty? How can everlastingness be reconciled with the traditional doctrines of divine simplicity and perfection? An outstanding group of American, UK, German, Austrian, and Swiss philosophers and theologians discuss the problem of God's relation to time. Their contributions range from analyzing and defending classical conceptions of eternity (Boethius's and Aquinas's) to vindicating everlastingness accounts, and from the foreknowledge problem to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. This book tackles philosophical questions that are of utmost importance for Systematic Theology. Its highest aim is to deepen our understanding of religious faith by surveying its relations to one of the most fundamental aspects of reality: time.
Time in Eternity
Time in Eternity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Time in Eternity write by Robert John Russell. This book was released on 2012-06-15. Time in Eternity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. According to Robert John Russell, one of the foremost scholars on relating Christian theology and science, the topic of “time and eternity” is central to the relation between God and the world in two ways. First, it involves the notion of the divine eternity as the supratemporal source of creaturely time. Second, it involves the eternity of the eschatological New Creation beginning with the bodily Resurrection of Jesus in relation to creaturely time. The key to Russell's engagement with these issues, and the purpose of this book, is to explore Wolfhart Pannenberg’s treatment of time and eternity in relation to mathematics, physics, and cosmology. Time in Eternity is the first book-length exposition of Russell’s unique method for relating Christian theology and the natural sciences, which he calls “creative mutual interaction” (CMI). This method first calls for a reformulation of theology in light of science and then for the delineation of possible topics for research in science drawing on this reformulated theology. Accordingly, Russell first reformulates Pannenberg’s discussion of the divine attributes—eternity and omnipresence—in light of the way time and space are treated in mathematics, physics, and cosmology. This leads him to construct a correlation of eternity and omnipresence in light of the spacetime framework of Einstein’s special relativity. In the process he proposes a new flowing time interpretation of relativity to counter the usual block universe interpretation supported by most physicists and philosophers of science. Russell also replaces Pannenberg’s use of Hegel’s concept of infinity in relation to the divine attributes with the concept of infinity drawn from the mathematics of Georg Cantor. Russell then addresses the enormous challenge raised by Big Bang cosmology to Christian eschatology. In response, he draws on Pannenberg’s interpretation both of the Resurrection as a proleptic manifestation of the eschatological New Creation within history and the present as the arrival of the future. Russell shows how such a reformulated understanding of theology can shed light on possible directions for fundamental research in physics and cosmology. These lead him to explore preconditions in contemporary physics research for the possibility of duration, copresence, retroactive causality, and prolepsis in nature.
God, Eternity and the Nature of Time
God, Eternity and the Nature of Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God, Eternity and the Nature of Time write by Alan Padgett. This book was released on 2000-06-16. God, Eternity and the Nature of Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on the timelessness of God, providing a detailed analysis of the nature of time and eternity. Padgett offers a biblical and historical survey of the doctrine of eternity, rejecting both theories of eternity being both 'timeless' and 'everlasting'. Padgett argues that traditionally the doctrine of absolute divine timelessness is not compatible with God's actions in the world. "God is in some sense temporal, yet He is the ground of time, the Lord of time and is 'relatively' timeless.
