God and Time
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God and Time

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God and Time

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About this book

The eternal God has created the universe. And that universe is time-bound. How can we best understand God's relationship with our time-bound universe? For example, does God experience each moment of time in succession or are all times present to God?

How we think of God and time has implications for our understanding of the nature of time, the creation of the universe, God's knowledge of the future, God's interaction with his creation and the fullness of God's life.

In this Spectrum Multiview volume, four notable philosophers skillfully take on this difficult topic--all writing from within a Christian framework yet contending for different views. Paul Helm argues that divine eternity should be construed as a state of absolute timelessness. Alan G. Padgett maintains that God's eternity is more plausibly to be understood as relative timelessness. William Lane Craig presents a hybrid view that combines timelessness with omnitemporality. And Nicholas Wolterstorff advocates a doctrine of unqualified divine temporality.

Each essay is followed by responses from the other three contributors and a final counter-response from the original essayist, making for a lively exchange of ideas. Editor Gregory E. Ganssle provides a helpful introduction to the debate and its significance. Together these five scholars conduct readers on a stimulating and mind-stretching journey into one of the most controversial and challenging areas of theology today.

Spectrum Multiview Books offer a range of viewpoints on contested topics within Christianity, giving contributors the opportunity to present their position and also respond to others in this dynamic publishing format.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. 1 Introduction: Thinking About God & Time: Gregory E. Ganssle
  6. 2 Divine Timeless Eternity: Paul Helm
  7. 3 Eternity as Relative Timelessness: Alan G. Padgett
  8. 4 Timelessness & Omnitemporality: William Lane Craig
  9. 5 Unqualified Divine Temporality: Nicholas Wolterstorff
  10. Notes
  11. Select Bibliography
  12. Contributors
  13. Name Index
  14. Subject Index
  15. About the Authors
  16. Like this book?
  17. Copyright