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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gregory E Ganssle; David M Woodruff |
| ISBN: | 0195129652 9780195129656 |
| OCLC Number: | 45583431 |
| Description: | xi, 252 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The eternal present / Brian Leftow -- Atemporal, sempiternal, or omnitemporal: God's temporal mode of being / Garrett DeWeese -- Divine foreknowledge and the arrow of time: on the impossibility of retrocausation / Alan G. Padgett -- God inside time and before creation / Dean W. Zimmerman -- Time was created by a timeless point: an atheist explanation of spacetime / Quentin Smith -- The elimination of absolute time by the special theory of relativity / William Lane Craig -- Timelessness out of mind: on the alleged incoherence of divine timelessness / Edward R. Wierenga -- Direct awareness and God's experience of a temporal now / Gregory E. Ganssle -- The absence of a timeless God / William Hasker -- The problem of dialogue / Paul Helm -- Incarnation, timelessness, and Leibniz's law problems / Thomas D. Senor -- On the incarnation of a timeless God / Douglas K. Blount. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Gregory E. Ganssle and David M. Woodruff. |
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<br>"[E]xibits a rich spectrum of argument concerning the many-faceted issue of God's relation to time...I found no essay in this anthology that lacked intellectual rigor. Accordingly, the volume should serve as an excellent ancillary text for courses in philosophy of religion that focus on divine attributes...I recommend this collection, and must confess that I cannot begin to do justice to its rich argumentation in such a brief review."--The Journal of Religion<br>"God and Time: Essays on the Divine Nature is not simply another explication of God's nature. It is a well ordered collection of essays divided into four sections: God's existence, God as a creator, his knowledge, and God's relation to the universe. The selection of essays and authors is as varied and purposeful as its divisions and includes a useful index...Ganssle quickly maps the territory for the reader and clearly demonstrates that temporality is one of the critical foci for contemporary philosophical theology...God an Read more...
