Time, eternity, and the trinity
Subtitle: a trinitarian analogical understanding of time and eternity / Eunsoo Kim
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9781606089682
Description: One of the vital issues in contemporary Christian theology is the problem of a renewed understanding of God's eternity and its relation to time.  This is not merely a peripheral doctrinal issue, but lies at the heart of our understanding of God and humanity, and contributes to our entire worldview.  This study focuses on a longstanding debate between two competing views on God's eternity: one focused on God's absolute timelessness in classical theism, and the other on God's temporal everlastingness in contemporary panentheism.  In contrast to both of these well-worn options, this book presents an alternative Trinitarian analogical understanding of God's eternity and its relation to time, especially through a critical reflection on Karl Barth's and Hans Urs von Balthasar's engagement of the issue.  this analogical approach, based on the dynamic and dramatic concepts of God's being-in-relation and of the Triune God's communicative action in eternity and time, has the potential to resolve the debate between absolute timeless eternity and temporal everlasting duration. - Publisher info.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-367).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part one : time and eternity in the biblical, historical, philosophical, and theological debates; title: Biblical understandings of time and eternity; title: Time and eternity in classical theism; title: Contemporary philosophical and scientific debates on the nature of time; title: Contemporary theological debates on God's eternity and its relation to time; title: Part two : toward a trinitarian analogical understanding of time and eternity; title: Time, eternity, and the trinity in the theology of Karl Barth; title: Time, eternity, and the trinity in the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar; title: Toward an alternative trinitarian analogical understanding of time and God's eternity; title: Conclusion.