Time and Eternity
Author | : Brian Leftow |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2018-09-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781501731884 |
ISBN-13 | : 1501731882 |
Rating | : 4/5 (882 Downloads) |
Download or read book Time and Eternity written by Brian Leftow and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.