TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leftow,Brian
TI  - Time and Eternity
T2  - Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of Religion
SN  - 9781501731884
AV  - BT153.I47 L43 1991
U1  - 212/.7 20
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Eternity
KW  - God (Christianity)
KW  - Time
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Religious Studies
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Religious
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Some Working Assumptions --; 3. The Possibility of the Timeless --; 4. The Logic of Eternity --; 5. Augustine: Eternality as Truest Existence --; 6. Boethius: Eternity as Duration --; 7. The Roots of Eternity --; 8. Boethius: Foreknowledge, Eternity, and Simultaneity --; 9. Anselm: Eternity and Dimensionality --; 10. A Theory of Time and Eternity --; 11. Timelessness, Freedom, and Foreknowledge --; 12. A Case for God's Timelessness --; 13. Timelessness and Personhood --; 14. Time, Actuality, and Omniscience --; 15. Omniscience, Change, and Epistemic Indexicals --; 16. Timelessness and Religious Experience --; 17. Vale et Salve --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Brian Leftow makes an important contribution to the longstanding debate among philosophers and theologians about the nature of God's eternity. The author develops a powerful and original defense of the notion that God is eternal in that he exists timelessly; that is, that though God exists, he does not exist at any time. Leftow defends the claim that a timeless God can be an object of human experience, and he attempts to delineate the extent of such a God's omniscience. Finally, the author pays special attention to the relation between the claim that God is timeless and the claim that God is metaphysically simple
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