God, eternity, and time
By: edited by Christian Tapp and Edmund Runggaldier
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781409423911; 9781409423928
Subjects: Eternity; Philosophische Theologie; Ewigkeit Gottes; Zeit; Theologie; Time; Christianity; God (Christianity); Ewigkeit; Philosophie; Gott; Zeitlichkeit
Description: This volume tackles philosophical questions which are of utmost importance for systematic theology. Its highest aim is to deepen our understanding of religious faith by surveying its relations to one of the most fundamental aspects of our world's reality - time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-183) and index.
Table of contents: title: On existing all at once  -- Robert Pasnau; title: Eternity, simplicity, and presence  -- Eleonore Stump; title: Why we need God's eternity  -- Thomas Schärtl; title: Eternity and fatalism  -- Linda Zagzebski; title: Molina on foreknowledge and transfer of necessities  -- Christoph Jäger; title: Eternity and infinity  -- Christian Tapp; title: The difference creation makes : relative timelessness reconsidered  -- Alan G. Padgett; title: Timeless action? Temporality and/or eternity in God's being and acting  -- Reinhold Bernhardt; title: Divine eternity and Einstein's special theory of relativity  -- William Lane Craig; title: Eternity in process philosophies -- Hans Kraml.