Author : Gregory E. Ganssle
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 2001-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830815517
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 : William Lane Craig
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433517566
This remarkable work offers an analytical exploration of the nature of divine eternity and God's relationship to time.
Author : Jacques Philippe
Publisher : Scepter Publishers
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 2017-03-29
Category :
ISBN : 1594170975
Many people today are thirsty for God and feel a desire for an intense, personal prayer life that is deep and ongoing. But they encounter obstacles that prevent them from following the path seriously, and especially from persevering on it. Time for God was written with these desires and difficulties in mind. In Time for God, author Jacques Philippe mainly concentrates on mental prayer: prayer that consists of facing God in solitude and silence for a time in order to enter into intimate, loving communion with him. Practicing this kind of prayer regularly is considered by all spiritual masters to be an indispensable path that gives access to genuine Christian life—a path to knowing and loving God that empowers us to respond to his call to holiness addressed to each individual. Philippe draws on years of experience as a spiritual guide to illuminate the fundamental principles of mental prayer and describes some common mistakes and misconceptions that can lead it astray. With simplicity and clarity he explains the foundational principles for a healthy prayer life and gives advice for overcoming the various obstacles that arise when one sets off on the path of interior prayer.
Author : William Hasker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1501702904
"This outstanding book... is a genuinely pivotal contribution to the lively current debate over divine foreknowledge and human freedom.... Hasker's book has three commendable features worthy of immediate note. First, it contains a carefully crafted overview of the recent literature on foreknowledge and freedom and so can serve as an excellent introduction to that literature. Second, it is tightly reasoned and brimming with brisk arguments, many of them highly original. Third, it correctly situates the philosophical dispute over foreknowledge and freedom within its proper theological context and in so doing highlights the intimate connection between the doctrines of divine omniscience and divine providence."—Faith and Philosophy"[God, Time, and Knowledge] is an elegantly written, forcefully argued challenge to traditional views, and a major contribution to the discussion of divine foreknowledge."—Philosophical Review"This is a very competent, thorough analysis of the conflict between free will and divine foreknowledge (or, on some acounts, timeless divine knowledge of our future). It is exceptionally clear."—Theological Book Review
Author : Harry Lee Poe
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830839542
Theologian Harry Lee Poe and chemist Jimmy H. Davis argue that God's interaction with our world is a possibility affirmed equally by the Bible and the contemporary scientific record. Rather than confirming that the cosmos is closed to the actions of the divine, advancing scientific knowledge seems to indicate that the nature of the universe is actually open to the unique type of divine activity portrayed in the Bible.
Author : Alan Padgett
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 2000-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725205327
This book focuses on the timelessness of God, providing a detailed analysis of the nature of time and eternity. Padgett offers a biblical and historical survey of the doctrine of eternity, rejecting both theories of eternity being both 'timeless' and 'everlasting'. Padgett argues that traditionally the doctrine of absolute divine timelessness is not compatible with God's actions in the world. "God is in some sense temporal, yet He is the ground of time, the Lord of time and is 'relatively' timeless.
Author : W.L. Craig
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 940171715X
In this highly original and ground-breaking work, the author brings together discussions in the philosophy of time and space, philosophy of language, phenomenology, philosophy of science, Special and General Relativity, classical cosmology, quantum mechanics, and so forth, with the concerns of philosophy of religion and theology, in order to craft a philosophically informed and scientifically tenable doctrine of divine eternity and God's relationship to time.
Author : Edmund Runggaldier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1351932748
"God is eternal" is a standard belief of all theistic religions. But what does it mean? If, on the one hand, "eternal" means timeless, how can God hear the prayers of the faithful at some point of time? And how can a timeless God act in order to answer the prayers? If God knows what I will do tomorrow from all eternity, how can I be free to choose what to do? If, on the other hand, "eternal" means everlasting, does that not jeopardize divine majesty? How can everlastingness be reconciled with the traditional doctrines of divine simplicity and perfection? An outstanding group of American, UK, German, Austrian, and Swiss philosophers and theologians discuss the problem of God's relation to time. Their contributions range from analyzing and defending classical conceptions of eternity (Boethius's and Aquinas's) to vindicating everlastingness accounts, and from the foreknowledge problem to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. This book tackles philosophical questions that 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 reality: time.
Author : John S. Dunne
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780859690492
Author : Paul Helm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198237259
Eternal God offers a powerful defence of the view that God exists in timeless eternity. This classical Christian view is claimed by many theologians and philosophers to be incoherent but Helm rebuts this charge.
