Temporality and Eternity : : Nine Perspectives on God and Time /

Temporality and Eternity : : Nine Perspectives on God and Time / / ed. by Marcus Schmücker, Michael T. Williams, Florian Fischer.

Is time a creation of God? How can God be considered eternal, if he is responsible for the existence of time? Is God temporal or is he timeless? The relationship between God and time has been an object of inquiry in philosophical and theological traditions around the world for centuries. This volume...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Fischer, Florian,
Grössl, Johannes,
Hoover, Jon,
Mullins, R.T.,
Sakai, Masamichi,
Saudek, Daniel,
Schmücker, Marcus,
Schulz, Michael,
Strauss, Ze’ev,
Williams, Michael T.,
HerausgeberIn:
Fischer, Florian,
Schmücker, Marcus,
Williams, Michael T.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 220 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Temporal and timeless deity
  • From divine timemaker to divine watchmaker
  • Time’s arrow, relativity and God’s eternity: From the limitedness of creatures to the asymmetric structure of the worldline
  • God, the grandfather of time: Time and the absolute in the thought of Philo of Alexandria
  • The Muslim theologian Ibn Taymiyyah on God, creation and time
  • Historical eternity: The approaches of Wolfhart Pannenberg and Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • On the relation between God and time in the later theistic Vedānta of Madhva, Jayatīrtha and Veṅkaṭanātha
  • Analytic philosophy of time in Early Modern India
  • Non-persistence in time: A Buddhist account of intrinsic nature
  • Contributors
  • Authors/Persons
  • Works
  • Key-terms

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