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hose who think about time are thinking deeply. Those who think about God T are thinking even more deeply still. Those who try to think about God and time are pressing the very limits of human understanding. Undaunted, this is precisely the project which we have set for ourselves in this study: to try to grasp the nature of divine eternity, to understand what is meant by the amnnation that God is etemal, to fonnulate a coherent doctrine ofGod's relationship with time. This study, the second installment of a long-range research pro gram devoted to a philosophical analysis of the principal attributes of God, flows naturally out of my previous exploration of divine omniscience. ! For the most contentious issue with respect to God's being omniscient concerns divine foreknowledge of future contingents, such as free acts of human agents. The very concept of foreknowledge presupposes that God is temporal, and a good many thinkers, from Boethius to certain contemporary philosophers, have thought to avoid the alleged incompatibility of divine foreknowledge and human freedom by afflnning the timelessness of God. Thus, in examining the complex of issues surrounding the foreknowledge question, we found ourselves already immersed in the question of divine eternity.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Nature of Divine Eternity
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Front Matter
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Arguments for Divine Timelessness
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Arguments for Divine Temporality
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Back Matter
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God and Time
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Front Matter
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God, Time, and its Measures
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God, Time, and Creation
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"William Craig makes a persuasive case for the A- (tensed) theory of time and against the B- (tenseless) theory of time. … Craig’s scholarly work, which expertly integrates philosophy, science, and theology, deserves to be read widely." (Paul Copan, The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. LVI (223), 2003)
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Book Title: God, Time, and Eternity
Book Subtitle: The Coherence of Theism II: Eternity
Authors: William Lane Craig
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1715-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0011-9Published: 30 September 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5823-2Published: 15 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1715-1Published: 14 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 321
Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Ontology