Eternity, knowledge, and freedom

Diekemper, Joseph

doi:10.1017/s0034412512000170

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“…The view that there is some kind of time with God is held by Jackelén (2005), Holland (2012), Russell (2012), Diekemper (2013), Mullins (2016), Peters (2016), Sydnor (2018), Mullins (2021) and Everhart (2021). For Holland (2012), the incarnation of God is a central argument for there being time with God.…”

Section: Impact Of the Incarnation Of Jesus On The Triune Godmentioning

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God in dialogue with His creation

May

2023

Khazanah Theologia

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Christian faith, theology and natural sciences are brought into conversation with each other to analyse different aspects of the dialogue between God and his creation. The methodological approach consists of bringing research results from theology and the natural sciences documented in current publications as well as philosophical considerations into a dialogue with the Christian faith. Furthermore, the chronological development is given special attention. Both philosophical considerations and physical observations show that this universe was created by a transcendent intelligent supreme being, the Christian God, and that it is very important for this supreme being to communicate with the intelligent living beings in this universe. God entered and continues to enter into an ever more intense and intimate dialogue with his creation in various ways, both in Earth history and evolution, and in the history of the people of Israel, as well as today in the Christian era. To remove all possible barriers and obstacles to dialogue, God himself became man in Jesus Christ. The incarnation of Jesus Christ is the culmination of the dialogue between God and his creation. The incarnation and resurrection of Jesus Christ had a very great impact on the triune God. God gives himself so much to the dialogue with his creation that he takes into his innermost being the human body of Jesus Christ, which is a part of his creation marked by time. At the end of time, all human beings who have chosen God will live eternally with each other and with the triune God in comprehensive and fulfilling communion. This all-encompassing and all-fulfilling dialogue of love will originate from the triune God and will fill and glorify the whole of creation. The article shows that dialogue is central to understanding the relationship between God and his creation. The intra-Trinitarian dialogue of love between the three persons of God is the starting point, model and goal of both creation and God's dialogue with his creation. Contribution: The synthesis of Christian faith, theology and natural sciences makes it possible to see more clearly how much God is in dialogue with his creation. This can help us to recognise more deeply God's love for his creation and especially for us humans, and to act from this insight.

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Section: Impact Of the Incarnation Of Jesus On The Triune Godmentioning

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God in dialogue with His creation

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2023

Khazanah Theologia

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The Timeless Solution

Florio

Frigerio

2019

Divine Omniscience and Human Free Will

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Perpetual Present: Henri Bergson and Atemporal Duration

Moravec

2019

EJPR

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The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that adjusting Stump and Kretzmann’s “atemporal duration” with la durée, a key concept in the philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859–1941), can respond to the most significant objections aimed at Stump and Kretzmann’s re-interpretation of Boethian eternity. This paper deals with three of these objections: the incoherence of the notion of “atemporal duration,” the impossibility of this duration being time-like, and the problems involved in conceiving it as being related to temporal duration by a relation of analogy. I conclude that “atemporal duration” (which has unfortunately come to be regarded with suspicion by most analytic philosophers of religion) — when combined with Bergson’s durée to become an “atemporal durée” — is a coherent understanding of divine eternity.

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Eternity, knowledge, and freedom

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

God in dialogue with His creation

God in dialogue with His creation

The Timeless Solution

Perpetual Present: Henri Bergson and Atemporal Duration

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