
The claim that God is timeless has been the majority view throughout church history. However, it is not obvious that divine timelessness is compatible with fundamental Christian doctrines such as creation and incarnation. Theologians have long been aware of the conflict between divine timelessness and Christian doctrine, and various solutions to these conflicts have been developed. In contemporary thought, it is widely agreed that new theories on the nature of the time can further help solve these conflicts. Do these solutions actually solve the conflict? Can the Christian God be timeless? The End of the Timeless God sets forth a thorough investigation into the Christian understanding of God and the God-world relationship. It argues that the Christian God cannot be timeless.
This book investigates whether the traditional doctrine of divine timelessness is logically compatible with fundamental Christian tenets such as creation and the incarnation. R. T. Mullins, a scholar in analytic theology, evaluates historical and contemporary arguments regarding the nature of God and time. By scrutinizing various proposed solutions to the conflict between a timeless deity and a temporal world, the author constructs a rigorous argument that the Christian God must be understood as existing within time.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Scholars and students of analytic theology recognize this work as a significant contribution to the debate on divine attributes. Readers frequently note the technical rigor and logical density of the prose, which is intended for an audience familiar with philosophical theology.
Page Count:
274
Publication Date:
2016-01-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
ISBN-10:
0191071455
ISBN-13:
9780191071454
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