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 | | God, Time, and Eternity: The Coherence of Theism II: Eternity by W.L. Craig ISBN-10: 9781402000119 ISBN-10: 1-4020-0011-1 ISBN-13: 9781402000119 ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-0011-9 Hardcover 2001-10-01 Springer Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Those who think about time are thinking deeply. Those who think about God are thinking even more deeply still. To try to think about both at once is to press the very limits of human understanding. Undeterred, this is precisely the project which William Lane Craig sets for himself in this study: to try to grasp the nature of divine eternity, to understand what is meant by the affirmation that God is eternal, to formulate a coherent doctrine of God's relationship with time. In this highly original and ground-breaking work, Craig brings together discussions in the philosophy of time and space, philosophy of language, phenomenology, philosophy of science, Special and General Relativity, classical cosmology, quantum mechanics, and so forth, with the concerns of philosophy of religion and theology, in order to craft a philosophically informed and scientifically tenable doctrine of divine eternity and God's relationship to time. | ||
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Mind-blowing and a great read I thought this was going to be a real grind, but it turned out to be incredibly fun and interesting. The topics covered are abstruse, but the way Craig writes, one can follow it relatively easily, and in some places effortlessly. His ideas about time and eternity are fascinating, but the material that really blew my mind was what he wrote on special and general relativity and quantum mechanics. He showed how Einstein's idea that there is no privileged frame of reference has been debunked by several theories and experiments in 20th century physics. I had heard of all the theories and experiments before but had never put them together in such a startling way. I am still reeling - my conception of the universe has been shattered. This is really great stuff. One of the best books I've ever read! I will have to read all Craig's books (I've read one other before, his debate with a Jesus Seminar scholar in which he also shines - and I say this as someone who's far more liberal in his religion than Craig is). | ||