Time and Eternity / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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