The sempiternity of God and cosmic time
The concept of a sempiternal God in Open Theism has considerable advantages in comparison with the classical timeless conception. The problem is that it requires presentism and absolute time which causes difficulties in the ontology of time and contemporary cosmology, especially in its integration w...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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Gregorianum
Year: 2020, Volume: 101, Issue: 4, Pages: 751-768 |
| Summary: | The concept of a sempiternal God in Open Theism has considerable advantages in comparison with the classical timeless conception. The problem is that it requires presentism and absolute time which causes difficulties in the ontology of time and contemporary cosmology, especially in its integration with Minkowski space-time. Cosmological theories tend naturally towards eternalism. D. M. Woodruff argues that the existence of the future in Minkowski space-time is unwarranted and D. Zimmerman that its time-dimension is not real time. W. L. Craig defends more problematic neo-Lorentzian relativity with a unique cosmic time and Newtonian concept of absolute time. The advantage is that Craig has a much broader vision extended from science (Relativity and Quantum Theory) to metaphysics and theology, which can serve as a guideline for a sempiternalist and which indicates the topics of possible improvement in dialogue with new developments in science. |
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| ISSN: | 0017-4114 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Gregorianum
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