Temporality and Eternity

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Temporality and Eternity

Nine Perspectives on God and Time

Edited by: Marcus Schmücker, Michael T. Williams and Florian Fischer

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110698190

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About this book

Is time a creation of God? How can God be considered eternal, if he is responsible for the existence of time? Is God temporal or is he timeless? The relationship between God and time has been an object of inquiry in philosophical and theological traditions around the world for centuries. This volume takes up these and other questions, presenting a range of answers not only as brought forth in European philosophical traditions and in early Christianity, Judaism and Islam, but also positions taken by mediaeval Indian theologians and in the influential traditions of early Buddhism.

Traditionally, discussions have focused on questions such as whether time is a necessary concomitant of God’s existence, or whether time should be identified with God. But there is a further question: did these traditions develop their own unrelated and independent view of God and time? Or are there similarities in their reflections? This volume, with contributions of scholars from various relevant fields, offers a novel approach to these inquiries. When taken as a whole, it provides new momentum to contemplation on an age-old enigma.

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Marcus Schmücker and Michael T. Williams, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, Florian Fischer, University of Siegen, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Marcus Schmücker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Temporal and timeless deity Florian Fischer and Johannes Grössl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
From divine timemaker to divine watchmaker R.T. Mullins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Time’s arrow, relativity and God’s eternity: From the limitedness of creatures to the asymmetric structure of the worldline Daniel Saudek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
God, the grandfather of time: Time and the absolute in the thought of Philo of Alexandria Ze’ev Strauss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
The Muslim theologian Ibn Taymiyyah on God, creation and time Jon Hoover Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Historical eternity: The approaches of Wolfhart Pannenberg and Hans Urs von Balthasar Michael Schulz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
On the relation between God and time in the later theistic Vedānta of Madhva, Jayatīrtha and Veṅkaṭanātha Marcus Schmücker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Analytic philosophy of time in Early Modern India Michael T. Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Non-persistence in time: A Buddhist account of intrinsic nature Masamichi Sakai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Authors/Persons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Works Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Philosophy of Religion, Theology, Indology, Buddhist Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 220
Illustrations
- Tables: 2
Keywords: God; Eternity; Momentariness; Continuity

eBook

Published: January 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783110698190

Hardcover

Published: January 31, 2022
ISBN: 9783110698008