Time and Eternity / / Brian Leftow.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Leftow, Brian,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of Religion
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Some Working Assumptions --; 3. The Possibility of the Timeless --; 4. The Logic of Eternity --; 5. Augustine: Eternality as Truest Existence --; 6. Boethius: Eternity as Duration --; 7. The Roots of Eternity --; 8. Boethius: Foreknowledge, Eternity, and Simultaneity --; 9. Anselm: Eternity and Dimensionality --; 10. A Theory of Time and Eternity --; 11. Timelessness, Freedom, and Foreknowledge --; 12. A Case for God's Timelessness --; 13. Timelessness and Personhood --; 14. Time, Actuality, and Omniscience --; 15. Omniscience, Change, and Epistemic Indexicals --; 16. Timelessness and Religious Experience --; 17. Vale et Salve --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501731884; 9783110536157
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501731884
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Brian Leftow.

Brian Leftow makes an important contribution to the longstanding debate among philosophers and theologians about the nature of God's eternity. The author develops a powerful and original defense of the notion that God is eternal in that he exists timelessly; that is, that though God exists, he does not exist at any time. Leftow defends the claim that a timeless God can be an object of human experience, and he attempts to delineate the extent of such a God's omniscience. Finally, the author pays special attention to the relation between the claim that God is timeless and the claim that God is metaphysically simple.