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Title: God & Time: 4 Views by Gregory E. Ganssle ISBN: 0-8308-1551-1 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Nice comparative text
Comment: This book would be an excellent book for someone who is interested in God and time but does not have a strong philosophical background in the issues. The text is formatted very similar to the Zondervan 'Views' texts. In other words, a given view from one of the four scholars is put forth, and the other three scholars respond. After the other three scholars have responded, the initial scholar has a chance to respond to the other three scholar's responses!
The four scholars in this text are well known in their area of study. These four scholars are Paul Helm, Alan G. Padgett, William Lane Craig, and Nicholas Wolterstorff.
The only downfall to the book is that it is geared more toward the temporalist viewpoint. Craig and Wolterstorff are without a doubt temporalists, Paul Helm is without a doubt a timeless adherent, but Padgett seems to be somewhere in the middle and it seems that he is more of a temporalist in his assertions.
Padgett has contentions with the notion of 'everlasting eternity' (a view which Wolterstorff holds), but he also has certain contentions with 'timeless eternity' (a view that Paul Helm holds). Thus, he opts for a type of middle position which he calls 'relative timelessness.' This view is rather odd and incoherent in certain ways. It asserts differences between 'created time' and 'God's time.' Padgett asserts that "God's time is a necessary precondition to God's being," and vice versa. I do not fully understand where Padgett is trying to go with these type of assertions which seem to demonstrate God as contingent in some sense. Padgett claims God is relatively timeless, that is timeless, relative to our created measured time, and that our time takes place inside God's time. A type of time contained in time. For further reading into Padgett's view read his book "God, Eternity, and the Nature of Time." (I myself am still working on Padgett's assertions)
A final feature which strengthens this text is Greg Ganssle's introduction. He does a very good job at setting the stage for the discussion. His introduction alone made the book worth the purchase. Overall this is a great book for the beginner and a nice refresher for those who are fairly well versed in these issues. I highly recommend it.
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Title: Divine Foreknowledge: 4 Views by James K. Beilby, Paul R. Eddy, Gregory A. Boyd, David Hunt, William Lane Craig, Paul Helm, James K. Belby ISBN: 0830826521 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Time and Eternity: Exploring God's Relationship to Time by William Lane Craig ISBN: 1581342411 Publisher: Crossway Books Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview by J. P. Moreland, William Lane Craig ISBN: 0830826947 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Only Wise God: The Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge & Human by William Lane Craig ISBN: 1579103162 Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Eternal God: A Study of God Without Time by Paul Helm ISBN: 0198237251 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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