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Author: Doris Jones
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462827152
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: Nelson C. Pike
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725202727
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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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: R. T. Mullins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191071455
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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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: Gertrud Freiin von Le Fort
Publisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Doris Jones
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ISBN: 9781456802882
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: Gregory E. Ganssle
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 9780830815517
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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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: Brian Leftow
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801475221
Category : Eternity
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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This book 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.

Author: Philipp a Ballmaier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781670940285
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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WHAT IS TRUTH? Do you ever stop to reflect on the meaning of life? Most people, if they were honest, would have to answer no. In a society that is constantly on the run, we rarely slow down to ponder the more meaningful truths of life. Eternal truths. All of humanity exists on a moving clock. You and I were created in time. But one day, our time will come to an end. Time is an inescapable reality. The only way a person could exist outside of time is if he or she were not bound by it. God is not bound by time. He transcends it. This timeless God has revealed His eternal truths to us. The truth that was evident to Adam is the same truth that holds true today. Since God exists outside of time, He is the only One Who has the answer to life's everyday problems. Thus, the purpose of this 365-daily devotional is to make you pause and reflect on timeless eternal truths drawn from God's Word. Will you trust in the changing philosophies of time or will you hold fast to the God Who is timeless?

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Category : Greeting cards
Languages : en
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Author: Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190611758
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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Eternity is a unique kind of existence that is supposed to belong to the most real being or beings. It is an existence that is not shaken by the common wear and tear of time. Over the two and half millennia history of Western philosophy we find various conceptions of eternity, yet one sharp distinction between two notions of eternity seems to run throughout this long history: eternity as timeless existence, as opposed to eternity as existence in all times. Both kinds of existence stand in sharp contrast to the coming in and out of existence of ordinary beings, like hippos, humans, and toothbrushes: were these eternally-timeless, for example, a hippo could not eat, a human could not think or laugh, and a toothbrush would be of no use. Were a hippo an eternal-everlasting creature, it would not have to bother itself with nutrition in order to extend its existence. Everlasting human beings might appear similar to us, but their mental life and patterns of behavior would most likely be very different from ours. The distinction between eternity as timelessness and eternity as everlastingness goes back to ancient philosophy, to the works of Plato and Aristotle, and even to the fragments of Parmenides' philosophical poem. In the twentieth century, it seemed to go out of favor, though one could consider as eternalists those proponents of realism in philosophy of mathematics, and those of timeless propositions in philosophy of language (i.e., propositions that are said to exist independently of the uttered sentences that convey their thought-content). However, recent developments in contemporary physics and its philosophy have provided an impetus to revive notions of eternity due to the view that time and duration might have no place in the most fundamental ontology. The importance of eternity is not limited to strictly philosophical discussions. It is a notion that also has an important role in traditional Biblical interpretation. The Tetragrammaton, the Hebrew name of God considered to be most sacred, is derived from the Hebrew verb for being, and as a result has been traditionally interpreted as denoting eternal existence (in either one of the two senses of eternity). Hence, Calvin translates the Tetragrammaton as 'l'Eternel', and Mendelssohn as 'das ewige Wesen' or 'der Ewige'. Eternity also plays a central role in contemporary South American fiction, especially in the works of J.L. Borges. The representation of eternity poses a major challenge to both literature and arts (just think about the difficulty of representing eternity in music, a thoroughly temporal art). The current volume aims at providing a history of the philosophy of eternity surrounded by a series of short essays, or reflections, on the role of eternity and its representation in literature, religion, language, liturgy, science, and music. Thus, our aim is to provide a history of philosophy as a discipline that is in constant commerce with various other domains of human inquisition and exploration.