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In the following, a summary of the book and an analysis of the philosophical elements is given in the light of the metaphysics of Aristotle and Aquinas. The focus hereby is laid on the aspects relevant to the question of the existence of God.
1 sty 2011 · The God of Western religion is said to be eternal. But what does that mean? Is God somehow beyond time, living a life that does not involve one thing after another?
The existence of God has been a big subject in philosophy, and attempts to prove or disprove his existence have been made since time immemorial. Famous philosophers such as Rene Descartes, St. Thomas Aquinas, and William Paley have all conceived arguments to prove the existence of God.
22 mar 2018 · The idea is that God’s time is non-identical with our, “Measured Time”. “Measured Time” is “the specifically human time of our history and our universe: the time of seconds, days, and centuries; the time of our space-time” (Padgett 1992: 130). In that sense of “time”, God is timeless.
Augustine, Confessions, 258–60. Wilcoxen’s “Augustine’s Theology of Time” is an invaluable resource for thinking through Augustine’s distinction between fallen and redeemed time. Jordan Baker suggests that Augustine’s philosophy of time can teach Christians how to engage science.
Time exists necessarily because an endurant God exists necessarily. Time cannot exist without necessary beings, but time can exist regardless of what contingent beings exist within it.13 A quick summary seems in order: On the one hand, there are those who say that time is change, while on the other there are those who hold that time can exist ...
Anselm is trying to prove the existence of God using the concept of ‘a being than which no greater can be conceived’, where the idea of the ‘greatest’ refers to God’s complete perfection: all knowing, all-powerful, ranging over all the earth and all the heavens.
