Eternity and time's flow

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Eternity and time's flow

Robert Cummings Neville ; illustrations and cover design by Beth Neville

(SUNY series in philosophy)(SUNY series in religion)

State University of New York Press, c1993

  • pbk.

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Bibliography: p. 245-253

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Neville returns eternity to the center of consideration by analyzing the obsessive culture that attempts to get along denying it; and he analyzes the nature of time's flow itself, the nature of divine eternity, and the subtle problems of personal immortality. He argues that time and eternity constitute one topic and that, therefore, time itself is beyond understanding, beyond personal grasp, and beyond civilized orientation without a proper comprehension of eternity.

Table of Contents

Author's Preface Artist's Preface by Beth Neville Part One. Eternity and the Time Passion of the Modern World 1. A Time to Rethink Eternity Science Religion Metaphysics The Argument 2. The Fall from Eternity to Immortality Temporal Obsession Ancient Sophistication Immortality and Antireligion Skepticsm and Anxiety 3. The Philosophical Passion for Present Time Subjectivism and Experience Kant and the Transcendental Definition of World Modern Kantians Whitehead and Process Philosophy 4. No Time without Eternity Personal Identity Self and Nonself Past and Future in Present Time Moral Identity Part Two. Time's Flow within Eternity 5. A Metaphysics of Time and Eternity Antimetaphysics Relation as Connection The Integrity of Relata Harmony 6. Time's Relations of Otherness The Present's Rebellion against Time as Past The Differences between Past, Present, and Future Value and Time The Equal Necessity of the Temporal Modes 7. Time's Flow Before and After, Earlier and Later, and When Temporally Biased Representations of Time The Necessary Mutual Conditioning of Time's Modes How Time Flows 8. Eternal Togetherness of the Temporal Modes Togetherness The Ontological Contort of Mutual Relevance Time in Things, Things in Eternity Things in Time, Time in Eternity Part Three. Divine Eternity 9. Eternity and God's Being God as a Question False.Images of Eternity God Not an Individual Theistc Themes 10. Eternal Creation Theological Ideas of God Conceptions of the World: Closure Process Theology Creation ex Nihilo 11. Creation of All Times The Analysis of ''Proper Dates" "Two Authors" Theory The Temporality of the Creative Act The Nontemporality of the Creative Act 12. God's Eternal Life Time's Flow sub Specie Eternitatis Images of Time The Singularity of Creation: God Divine Responsiveness: God as Living Creator Part Four. Eternal Life 13. The Eternal Identity of Persons Immortality and Eternal Life Temporal and Eternal Identity Death's Allure Judgment: Standing in Eternity 14. The Divine Identity of Persons Participation in the Divine Life The Religious Significance of Natural Eternity The Covenant Conception of the Human Context Salvation: Redeeming the Time 15. God with Us The Otherness of God Privation of the Human Special Grace Providence: The Infinite in the Finite 16. God beyond Us Resurrection: Salvation and Damnation Conquering Natural Death of Finitude and Fragmentation Conquering Spiritual Death of Sin, Ignorance, and Disharmony Glory: The Finite in the Infinite Notes Bibliography Index

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