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The Problem of the Divine Eternity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

R. L. Sturch
R. L. Sturch
Affiliation:
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
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The ‘traditional’ view among philosophical (and many other) theologians, that God is eternal not merely in the sense of being everlasting but in the sense of being outside time altogether, has come under sharp criticism in recent years, both from biblical theologians and from philosophers. It is against the latter form of attack, particularly as represented by the detailed criticisms of Professor Nelson Pike, that I wish to try and defend the notion of a divine timelessness.

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Religious Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , December 1974 , pp. 487 - 493
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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page 487 note 1 E.g. Cullmann, Christ and Time; Marsh, The Fulness of Time; contra, Barr, Biblical Words or Time.

page 487 note 2 God and Timelessness (London, Routledge, 1970), esp. chs. 6–9.Google Scholar

page 487 note 3 Pike, , op. cit., p. 110.Google Scholar

page 490 note 1 Pike, , p. 128.Google Scholar

page 490 note 2 P.A.S. 1961, p. 99, quoted by Pike, , p. 122.Google Scholar

page 491 note 1 I am aware that some philosophers would hold this to be a necessary truth. But this is to take ‘Y would not be as it is’ in a strained sense; and in any case it would be equally possible to use ‘affect’ in a similarly strained sense.

page 491 note 2 Numbers 23: 19.

page 492 note 1 P. 174.