Hermeneutical Systematic Dimensions of the Debate on God as Timeless and/or Temporal

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ID3336716
AuthorsArlete Moysés Rodrigues (0000-0002-1812-8622, Andrews University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume15
Issue8
Pages888
Publication date2024-07-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel15080888
OpenAlexW4400933612
LanguageEN
References cited37

While the debate on God's eternity as timeless and/or temporal is a fascinating topic in itself, especially in philosophical theology, the discussion of time and temporality has a hermeneutical systematic potential for the articulation of Christian theology. In this article, I explore the hermeneutical systematic dimensions of time and timelessness for Christian theology in Augustine's Confessions (Book XI) in dialogue with contemporary articulations of divine timelessness and temporality, as delineated by Allan Padgett and William Craig. The study identifies how timelessness and temporality are hermeneutically and systematically shaped and serve as presuppositions for related concepts in anthropological and cosmological approaches that inform different views about the relationship of God with His creatures

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Timeless · Augustinian Studies and Theology · Karl Barth and Christian Theology · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Theology and Philosophy of Evil

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