Eternity and time's flow
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Eternity and time's flow
(SUNY series in philosophy)(SUNY series in religion)
State University of New York Press, c1993
- pbk.
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Note
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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