God and Time: Essays on the Divine Nature

by Gregory E. Ganssle (Editor), David M. Woodruff

This is a collection of previously unpublished essays about God's relation to time. The essays have been selected to represent debates between those who believe God to be atemporal and those who do not. The essays highlight issues such as how the nature of time is relevant to whether God is temporal and how God's other attributes are compatible with his mode of temporal being. By focusing on the metaphysical aspects of time and temporal existence, the text contributes to philosophical theology within the analytic tradition.

Genres: Philosophy, Theology

252 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Greg Ganssle (PhD, Syracuse) is professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. He is the author of several books, including A Reasonable God: Engaging the New Face of Atheism and Thinking About God, and he is the editor of God and Time.

Reviews

[Randy Hulshizer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent collection of philosophical essays about God and time. Several different viewpoints are represented here, including a rather amusing essay on how a timeless point is more probably the cause of the universe rather than God. Some good arguments on both sides for God being timeless and God being temporal, although I honestly think the temporal camp displays the weaker arguments here. They consistently put (in my opinion) baseless limitations on God if He exists timelessly. Interesting read.

[Michael Ulrich · Rating 3 out of 5]

A tad deep for me