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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Mullins, R.T. End of the timeless God. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016 (DLC) 2015940449 (OCoLC)915509178 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
R T Mullins |
| ISBN: | 9780191071447 0191071447 9780191816543 019181654X |
| OCLC Number: | 931873014 |
| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Contents: | Cover; The End of the Timeless God; Copyright; Dedication; Preface: Why Bother Thinking About God and Time?; WHY BOTHER THINKING ABOUT GOD AND TIME?; THE NEED FOR DOCTRINAL CLARITY: AN ESCHATOLOGICAL CASE STUDY; DEEP PROBLEMS IN THE CURRENT STATE OF THEOLOGY ON GOD AND TIME; Theological Confusion #1: God is Temporal and Timeless, or Something in Between; Theological Confusion #2: The Barthian Blunder; Theological Confusion #3: The Trinity Entails a Particular Understanding of Eternality; Theological Confusion #4: Placing God in the Future; THE AIM OF THIS BOOK; Acknowledgments Table of Contents1: Introduction; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; A CHRISTIAN RESEARCH PROGRAM; THE DIVINE TIMELESS RESEARCH PROGRAM; TESTING THE RESEARCH PROGRAM; 2: What is Time?; THE METAPHYSICS OF TIME; Relational and Absolute Theories of Time; BEGINNING TO TALK ABOUT TIME; A-Theory of Time; B-Theory of Time; The A-Theory and the B-Theory: An Unhelpful Debate; GETTING METAPHYSICAL; The Ontology of Time, and Persistence Through Time; AN EXCURSUS ON TIME AND DIVINE TEMPORALITY; Physical Time; Metaphysical Time; 3: What is Eternity?; PRELIMINARY REMARKS; WHAT IS TIMELESS ETERNITY?; DIVINE IMMUTABILITY DIVINE SIMPLICITYBEHOLD THE HAPPY WRATH OF GOD: DIVINE IMPASSIBILITY; DOES ETERNITY HAVE DURATION?; CAN WE TALK ABOUT ETERNITY?; CONCLUDING REMARKS; 4: Presentism, Omniscience, and the Timeless God; PRESENTISM AND CLASSICAL THEOLOGY; PRESENTISM, OMNISCIENCE, AND ALL OF TIME EXISTING IN ETERNITY; DOES GOD'S KNOWLEDGE CHANGE WITH CREATION?; The Augustinian Option; The Thomist Option; 5: Presentism, Creation, and the Timeless God; THE TIMELESS CREATOR; THE PROBLEM OF CREATION EX NIHILO INITIALLY STATED; THE PROBLEM OF DIVINE SUSTAINING INITIALLY STATED; JOHN PHILOPONUS TO THE RESCUE? A Proclus-Inspired DilemmaPhiloponus against Proclus; CAN A TIMELESS GOD BE CALLED CREATOR, REDEEMER, AND LORD?; IS GOD REALLY RELATED TO CREATION?; IS GOD REALLY RELATED TO CREATION?; CHRISTIANITY CANNOT DENY THAT GOD IS REALLY RELATED TO CREATION; CONCLUSION; 6: Divine Timelessness and Four-Dimensional Eternalism; KATHERIN ROGERS INTO THE FIFTH DIMENSION; REAPING THE BENEFITS OF FOUR-DIMENSIONAL ETERNALISM; LEAVING THE FIFTH DIMENSION BEHIND; Proclus' Dilemma and Creation Out of Nothing; Divine Simplicity Entails a Modal Collapse; Begotten Not Made?; The Threat of Pantheism What Perfections Can Be Derived From Four-Dimensionalism?FOUR-DIMENSIONAL ETERNALISM DOES NOT SAVE DIVINE TIMELESSNESS; The Timeless God Exists at Every Time; The Arguments against Timelessness Work on Eternalism; CONCLUDING REMARKS; 7: The Incarnation of the Timeless God; THE INITIAL OBJECTION; CHRISTOLOGICAL MODELS; The Two-Minds View: The Basics; Is the Two-Minds View Nestorian?; What is the Unique Relationship between the Son and His Humanity?; THE REDUPLICATIVE STRATEGY AND CONTRADICTORY PROPERTIES; The Reduplicative Strategy, Presentism, and Endurantism |
| Series Title: | Oxford studies in analytic theology. |
| Responsibility: | R.T. Mullins. |
Abstract:
This book considers two approaches to the philosophy of time, presentism and eternalism.
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