Title: Divine temporality and the special theory of relativity
Authors: Craig, William Lane.
Year: 1990
Subjects: God Immutability; Time.
Abstract: Advocates of a temporal deity have given insufficient attention to the objection raised by relativity theory that because time is relative to inertial frames and no frame is privileged, there exists no single time with which God could be associated. The best solution to this difficulty is to distinguish between physical (or measured) time and metaphysical time, the latter being associated with the succession of contents of consciousness of the temporal deity. It is contingent whether this metaphysical time coincides with the physical time relative to any reference frame. It is plausible that in our universe it coincides with the cosmic time established by the general theory in connection with the isotropic expansion of space.