Time, Eternity, and the Trinity
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Time, Eternity, and the Trinity

A Trinitarian Analogical Understanding of Time and Eternity

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Time, Eternity, and the Trinity

A Trinitarian Analogical Understanding of Time and Eternity

About this book

One of the vital issues in contemporary Christian theology is the problem of a renewed understanding of God's eternity and its relation to time. This is not merely a peripheral doctrinal issue, but lies at the heart of our understanding of God and humanity, and contributes to our entire worldview. This study focuses on a long-standing debate between two competing views on God's eternity: one focused on God's absolute timelessness in classical theism, and the other on God's temporal everlastingness in contemporary panentheism. In contrast to both of these well-worn options, this book presents an alternative Trinitarian analogical understanding of God's eternity and its relation to time, especially through a critical reflection on Karl Barth's and Hans Urs von Balthasar's engagement of the issue. This analogical approach, based on the dynamic and dramatic concepts of God's being-in-relation and of the Triune God's communicative action in eternity and time, has the potential to resolve the debate between absolute timeless eternity and temporal everlasting duration.

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Year
2010
Print ISBN
9781606089682
9781498254588
eBook ISBN
9781630876616

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Chapter 1: Introduction
  4. Part 1: Time and Eternity in the Biblical, Historical, Philosophical, and Theological Debates
  5. Chapter 2: Biblical Understandings of Time and Eternity
  6. Chapter 3: Time and Eternity in Classical Theism
  7. Chapter 4: Contemporary Philosophical and Scientific Debates on the Nature of Time
  8. Chapter 5: Contemporary Theological Debates on God’s Eternity and Its Relation to Time
  9. Part 2: Toward a Trinitarian Analogical Understanding of Time and Eternity
  10. Chapter 6: Time, Eternity, and the Trinity in the Theology of Karl Barth
  11. Chapter 7: Time, Eternity, and the Trinity in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar
  12. Chapter 8: Toward an Alternative Trinitarian Analogical Understanding of Time and God’s Eternity
  13. Chapter 9: Conclusion
  14. Bibliography

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