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Starting from the assumption that 'time is the horizon of the meaning of Being' (Heidegger), 'Eternal god/ saving time' attempts to discover what the central religious idea of eternity or of God as 'the Eternal' might mean today. Negotiating ideas of divine timelessness...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pattison, George, 1950- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
God (Christianity) > Eternity.
Time > Religious aspects.
Time > Philosophy.
Eternity.
God (Christianity)
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Eternity, timelessly?
  • 2. Time, eternally : theory
  • 3. Time, eternally : will
  • 4. Time or eternity
  • 5. Oblivion, memory, and hope
  • 6. The Call to utopia
  • 7. Theunissen : Pindar, poet of hope
  • 8. Kierkegaard : the eternal gift of time
  • 9. Rosenzweig : the eternal people
  • Conclusion