God And Timelessness

Author : Nelson C. Pike
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579108784
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God and Timelessness written by Nelson C. Pike and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-01-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian theologians are agreed that God is eternal. However, disagreement arises within the Christian tradition over the precise interpretation to be given to the word 'eternal'. Professor Nelson Pike examines one way of understanding the doctrine of divine eternity that has had considerable prominence in the writings of both Catholic and Protestant theologians. On this interpretation, to say that God is eternal is to say that God exists 'outside of time'; in other words, that God is 'timeless'. Professor Pike undertakes to expose both the strengths and shortcomings of this analysis of God's eternity. In addition to his discussion of divine eternity, Professor Pike treats a wide range of other theological and philosophical topics. These include the medieval doctrine of essential prediction, the syntactical status of the term 'God', the problem of divine foreknowledge, the notion of God's omnipotence, the doctrine of divine immutability, and the general methodological issues connected with traditional ways of determining the adequacy of statements ascribing specific attributes to God.

Author : Gregory E. Ganssle
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830815517
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God and Time written by Gregory E. Ganssle and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2001-09-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : R. T. Mullins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191071447
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of the Timeless God written by R. T. Mullins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The claim that God is timeless has been the majority view throughout church history. However, it is not obvious that divine timelessness is compatible with fundamental Christian doctrines such as creation and incarnation. Theologians have long been aware of the conflict between divine timelessness and Christian doctrine, and various solutions to these conflicts have been developed. In contemporary thought, it is widely agreed that new theories on the nature of time can further help solve these conflicts. Do these solutions actually solve the conflict? Can the Christian God be timeless? The End of the Timeless God sets forth a thorough investigation into the Christian understanding of God and the God-world relationship. It argues that the Christian God cannot be timeless.

Author : TAYLOR & FRANCIS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415608268
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God and Timelessness written by TAYLOR & FRANCIS and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Alan Padgett
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725205327
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God, Eternity and the Nature of Time written by Alan Padgett and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2000-06-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Brian Leftow
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501731882
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time and Eternity written by Brian Leftow and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Nelson Pike
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317831918
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God & Timelessness Vol 7 written by Nelson Pike and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003. This is volume VII in the IX-volume set titled Studies in Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion. The series is meant to provide an opportunity for philosophical discussions of a limited length which pursue in some detail specific topics in ethics or the philosophy of religion, or topics which belong to both fields. This volume discusses timelessness, the predicate 'timeless' in relation to God, power and two doctrines.

Author : William Lane Craig
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433517566
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time and Eternity written by William Lane Craig and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable work offers an analytical exploration of the nature of divine eternity and God's relationship to time.

Author : Paul Helm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198237259
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eternal God written by Paul Helm and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : William Hasker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501702904
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God, Time, and Knowledge written by William Hasker and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This outstanding book... is a genuinely pivotal contribution to the lively current debate over divine foreknowledge and human freedom.... Hasker's book has three commendable features worthy of immediate note. First, it contains a carefully crafted overview of the recent literature on foreknowledge and freedom and so can serve as an excellent introduction to that literature. Second, it is tightly reasoned and brimming with brisk arguments, many of them highly original. Third, it correctly situates the philosophical dispute over foreknowledge and freedom within its proper theological context and in so doing highlights the intimate connection between the doctrines of divine omniscience and divine providence."—Faith and Philosophy"[God, Time, and Knowledge] is an elegantly written, forcefully argued challenge to traditional views, and a major contribution to the discussion of divine foreknowledge."—Philosophical Review"This is a very competent, thorough analysis of the conflict between free will and divine foreknowledge (or, on some acounts, timeless divine knowledge of our future). It is exceptionally clear."—Theological Book Review