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Abbreviations vii
Preface ix
Introduction xi
Chapter 1 Method, Origins, and Scripture 1
The Origins of the Doctrine of Timeless Eternity 3
Augustine 4
Boethius 7
Wolterstorff and the Argument from Scripture 10
Conclusion 14
Chapter 2 The Nature of Time 17
Presentism and Eternalism: The A-and B-theories of Time 18
Time, Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics 22
Presentism and Physics: Cosmic Time 29
Time and Philosophy 30
Time, Tense, and Language 30
Tense and Experience 35
Language and Experience in Tenseless Time 39
Creatio ex nihilo 40
Conclusion 41
Chapter 3 Arguments Against Divine Temporal Transcendence 45
Becoming and Emergence 46
Timelessness and Fatalism 51
Activity, Knowledge, and Personhood 59
Presentism and Timelessness 60
The Argument from Personhood 62
The Argument from Deficient Experience 63
Conclusion 66
Chapter 4 The Coherence of Divine Temporal Transcendence 69
Restricted Timelessness 69
Schleiermacher 69
Determinism 72
Paths to the B-Theory 74
Two Kinds of B-series 74
Augustine 75
Thomas Aquinas 76
Direct Awareness 79
Response to Critics of the B-Series and Temporal Transcendence 80
The One-entity, One-event Universe 80
Divine Presence, Action, and Knowledge 84
Conclusion 88
Chapter 5 The Problem of Evil and the Language of Eternity 93
Evil and the Comprehensive Divine Decree 95
Calvin on God's Secret Providence 96
Purpose and Moral Judgment 97
The Transcendent God 100
Quasi-Temporal Eternity 101
Karl Barth 104
Barth, Helm, and the Language of Eternity 106
Eternity Applied 110
Time and Atonement 111
Conversion and Salvation 112
Conclusion 114
Index121
Bibliography 127
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