Temporality and Eternity: Nine Perspectives on God and Time and International Handbook of Practical Theology

International Handbook of Practical Theology

Temporality and Eternity: Nine Perspectives on God and Time

Name: Temporality and Eternity: Nine Perspectives on God and Time
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Author: Schm
ISBN: 9783110698008

by Schm, Michael Tilton Williams

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Publisher: de Gruyter
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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.