By William Lane Craig
Time and Eternity offers with tough concerns in sleek physics and brings them into relation with conventional theological doctrines. Craig has performed an outstanding paintings, and it truly is incredible that now the philosophy of faith is attractive with the philosophy of technological know-how to the nice advantage of both.
--John R. Lucas
Fellow of Merton collage, Oxford University
Time and Eternity bargains a accomplished dialogue of the issues within the options of time and eternity at the foundation of a rare familiarity with an unlimited variety of fresh contributions to this factor from scientists and philosophers. The argument is refined and particular. rather very important are the sections at the effect of different types of relativity concept at the proposal of time.... The e-book deals a believable argument for a practical perception of temporal method and for God's involvement within the temporal differences and techniques as a result of His presence in His creation.
--Wolfhart Pannenberg
Professor of Systematic Theology
Ludwig Maximilliens Universitaet-Muenchen, Germany
As a scientist doing theoretical learn in gravitational physics and quantum cosmology, i discovered Dr. Craig's considerate booklet hugely fascinating. He has rigorously given arguments protecting a number of diversified viewpoints for every of the numerous concerns approximately time that he discusses, through evaluations within which he emphasizes his personal opinion. studying Time and Eternity has compelled me to advance higher arguments for my very own critiques (which vary significantly from Craig's).... i'm definite that Time and Eternity also will stimulate your brooding about this interesting topic and your appreciation for the God who created time as a part of the magnificent universe He has given us.
--Don N. Page
Professor of Physics and Fellow of the Cosmology and Gravitation application of the Canadian Institute for complex Research
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
William Lane Craig is one the major philosophers of faith and one of many major philosophers of time. during this publication, he combines his services in those parts to supply an unique, erudite, and obtainable idea of time and God that may be of significant curiosity to either most people and students. it's a worthwhile adventure to learn via this extraordinary and well-researched ebook by means of some of the most realized and artistic thinkers of our era.
--Quentin Smith
Professor of Philosophy, Western Michigan University
In Time and Eternity, William Lane Craig defends the notable end that "God is undying with out production and temporal due to the fact that creation." Craig argues his case philosophically via rigorously weighing proof for and opposed to divine temporality and personhood in mild of dynamic as opposed to static theories of time and their warrants, in flip, in a Lorentzian interpretation of precise relativity and an aim, mind-independent thought of turning into, together with attention-grabbing tours into huge Bang cosmology and the philosophy of arithmetic. because the newest in his sequence of ground-breaking books, Time and Eternity summarizes and extends Craig's past technical arguments and conveys them to a extra normal viewers. it's a must-read for somebody heavily drawn to the matter of time and eternity in Christian philosophy.
--Robert Russell
Professor of Theology and Science
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, Calif.
The nature of time is a constant resource of puzzlement either to technology and in lifestyle. it's also a tremendous factor in theological understandings of the character of God. during this attention-grabbing booklet, Professor Craig tackles this advanced set of issues in a transparent means. His dialogue of the interrelated clinical, philosophical, and theological matters clears up many prior misconceptions and proposes a believable knowing of the relation of God to time and eternity that many will locate helpful.
--George Ellis
Professor of arithmetic and utilized Mathematics
University of Capetown
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According to physicist Hermann Bondi, "there is perhaps no other part of physics that has been checked and tested and cross-checked quite as much as the Theory of Relativity. " 4 The predictions of both STR and GTR have been verified without fail to a fantastic degree of precision. Any adequate theory of God's relationship to time must therefore take account of what these theories have to say about the nature of time. When we explore what STR has to say about the nature of time and particularly about simultaneity, however, a significant objection to divine temporality arises.
143. : Harvard University Press, 1973), 171. The sensorium was conceived to be that aspect of the mind in which mental images of physical objects are formed. Newton said that because physical objects exist in space and God is omnipresent, they literally exist in God and thus are immediately present to Him. Absolute space is, as it were, God's sensorium in the sense that He has no need of mental images of things, since the things themselves are present to Him. Einstein's Gedankenexperimenter (thought experimenter) is the hypothetical observer associated with any inertial frame, for whom time and space are purely relative quantities.
But here we must be very careful. Modern secular scholars tend frequently to forget how ardent a theist Newton was and how central a role this theism played in his metaphysical outlook. " 14 In fact, Newton makes quite clear in the General Scholium to the Principia, which he added in 1713, that absolute time and space are constituted by the divine attributes of eternity and omnipresence. He writes, He is eternal and infinite ... ; that is, his duration reaches from eternity to eternity; his presence from infinity to infinity....