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"God is eternal" is a standard belief of all theistic religions.
But what does it mean? If, on the one hand, "eternal" means
timeless, how can God hear the prayers of the faithful at some
point of time? And how can a timeless God act in order to answer
the prayers? If God knows what I will do tomorrow from all
eternity, how can I be free to choose what to do? If, on the other
hand, "eternal" means everlasting, does that not jeopardize divine
majesty? How can everlastingness be reconciled with the traditional
doctrines of divine simplicity and perfection? An outstanding group
of American, UK, German, Austrian, and Swiss philosophers and
theologians discuss the problem of God's relation to time. Their
contributions range from analyzing and defending classical
conceptions of eternity (Boethius's and Aquinas's) to vindicating
everlastingness accounts, and from the foreknowledge problem to
Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. This book tackles
philosophical questions that are of utmost importance for
Systematic Theology. Its highest aim is to deepen our understanding
of religious faith by surveying its relations to one of the most
fundamental aspects of reality: time.
"God is eternal" is a standard belief of all theistic religions.
But what does it mean? If, on the one hand, "eternal" means
timeless, how can God hear the prayers of the faithful at some
point of time? And how can a timeless God act in order to answer
the prayers? If God knows what I will do tomorrow from all
eternity, how can I be free to choose what to do? If, on the other
hand, "eternal" means everlasting, does that not jeopardize divine
majesty? How can everlastingness be reconciled with the traditional
doctrines of divine simplicity and perfection? An outstanding group
of American, UK, German, Austrian, and Swiss philosophers and
theologians discuss the problem of God's relation to time. Their
contributions range from analyzing and defending classical
conceptions of eternity (Boethius's and Aquinas's) to vindicating
everlastingness accounts, and from the foreknowledge problem to
Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. This book tackles
philosophical questions that are of utmost importance for
Systematic Theology. Its highest aim is to deepen our understanding
of religious faith by surveying its relations to one of the most
fundamental aspects of reality: time.
How can we say at once that God s act of creation is a rational act
and the world is the fulfillment of God s plan, andthat science
tries to unlock the secrets of this plan? These perspectives can
only be reconciled through a successful teleological interpretation
of physical phenomena. Renowned theologians and natural scientists
examine this problem from different points of view."
Der Mathematiker David Hilbert entwickelte mit seiner Beweistheorie
ein Programm zur Grundlegung der Mathematik. In der ersten
deutschsprachigen Monographie zum Thema bietet der Autor neue
Deutungen des Hilbertprogramms. Ausgehend von den historischen
Quellen stellt er die Frage neu, ob Hilbert eine formalistische
Philosophie der Mathematik voraussetzte. Er macht die Fulle der
Ideen sichtbar, die Hilbert und seine Schuler formulierten,
diskutiert anspruchsvolle philosophische Implikationen und raumt
mit einer Reihe von Fehlinterpretationen auf."
Two questions regarding contemporary theological and philosophical
studies are often overlooked: “Is God infinite or finite?” and,
“What does it mean to say that God is infinite?” In The
Infinity of God, Benedikt Paul Göcke and Christian Tapp bring
together prominent scholars to discuss God’s infinitude from
philosophical and theological perspectives. Each contributor deals
with a particular aspect of the infinity of God, employing the
methods of analytic theology and analytic philosophy. The essays in
the first section examine historical issues from a systematic point
of view. The contributors focus on the Cappadocian Fathers, Thomas
Aquinas, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Bolzano, and Cantor. The second
section deals with particular issues concerning the relation
between God's infinity and both the finitude of the world and the
classical attributes of God: eternity, simplicity, omnipresence,
omnipotence, omniscience, and moral perfection. There are some
books that deal with the notion of infinity in mathematics and in
general philosophy, but no single text brings together the best
analytic philosophers and theologians tackling the various aspects
of the infinity of God and the correlated problems. This book will
interest students and scholars in philosophy of religion, theology,
and metaphysics. Contributors: Benedikt Paul Göcke, Christian
Tapp, Franz Krainer, Adam Drosdek, William E. Carroll, Christina
Schneider, Ruben Schneider, Robert M. Wallace, Bruce A. Hedman,
Bernhard Lang, Richard Swinburne, Kenneth L. Pearce, William
Hasker, Paul Helm, Brian Leftow, Ken Perszyk, Thomas Schärtl, and
Philip Clayton.
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