The end of the timeless god

Content: Cover
 The End of the Timeless God
 Copyright
 Dedication
 Preface: Why Bother Thinking About God and Time?
 WHY BOTHER THINKING ABOUT GOD AND TIME?
 THE NEED FOR DOCTRINAL CLARITY: AN ESCHATOLOGICAL CASE STUDY
 DEEP PROBLEMS IN THE CURRENT STATE OF THEOLOGY ON GOD AND TIME
 Theological Confusion #1: God is Temporal and Timeless, or Something in Between
 Theological Confusion #2: The Barthian Blunder
 Theological Confusion #3: The Trinity Entails a Particular Understanding of Eternality
 Theological Confusion #4: Placing God in the Future
 THE AIM OF THIS BOOK
 Acknowledgments Table of Contents1: Introduction
 RESEARCH PROGRAMS
 A CHRISTIAN RESEARCH PROGRAM
 THE DIVINE TIMELESS RESEARCH PROGRAM
 TESTING THE RESEARCH PROGRAM
 2: What is Time?
 THE METAPHYSICS OF TIME
 Relational and Absolute Theories of Time
 BEGINNING TO TALK ABOUT TIME
 A-Theory of Time
 B-Theory of Time
 The A-Theory and the B-Theory: An Unhelpful Debate
 GETTING METAPHYSICAL
 The Ontology of Time, and Persistence Through Time
 AN EXCURSUS ON TIME AND DIVINE TEMPORALITY
 Physical Time
 Metaphysical Time
 3: What is Eternity?
 PRELIMINARY REMARKS
 WHAT IS TIMELESS ETERNITY?
 DIVINE IMMUTABILITY DIVINE SIMPLICITYBEHOLD THE HAPPY WRATH OF GOD: DIVINE IMPASSIBILITY
 DOES ETERNITY HAVE DURATION?
 CAN WE TALK ABOUT ETERNITY?
 CONCLUDING REMARKS
 4: Presentism, Omniscience, and the Timeless God
 PRESENTISM AND CLASSICAL THEOLOGY
 PRESENTISM, OMNISCIENCE, AND ALL OF TIME EXISTING IN ETERNITY
 DOES GOD'S KNOWLEDGE CHANGE WITH CREATION?
 The Augustinian Option
 The Thomist Option
 5: Presentism, Creation, and the Timeless God
 THE TIMELESS CREATOR
 THE PROBLEM OF CREATION EX NIHILO INITIALLY STATED
 THE PROBLEM OF DIVINE SUSTAINING INITIALLY STATED
 JOHN PHILOPONUS TO THE RESCUE? A Proclus-Inspired DilemmaPhiloponus against Proclus
 CAN A TIMELESS GOD BE CALLED CREATOR, REDEEMER, AND LORD?
 IS GOD REALLY RELATED TO CREATION?
 IS GOD REALLY RELATED TO CREATION?
 CHRISTIANITY CANNOT DENY THAT GOD IS REALLY RELATED TO CREATION
 CONCLUSION
 6: Divine Timelessness and Four-Dimensional Eternalism
 KATHERIN ROGERS INTO THE FIFTH DIMENSION
 REAPING THE BENEFITS OF FOUR-DIMENSIONAL ETERNALISM
 LEAVING THE FIFTH DIMENSION BEHIND
 Proclus' Dilemma and Creation Out of Nothing
 Divine Simplicity Entails a Modal Collapse
 Begotten Not Made?
 The Threat of Pantheism What Perfections Can Be Derived From Four-Dimensionalism?FOUR-DIMENSIONAL ETERNALISM DOES NOT SAVE DIVINE TIMELESSNESS
 The Timeless God Exists at Every Time
 The Arguments against Timelessness Work on Eternalism
 CONCLUDING REMARKS
 7: The Incarnation of the Timeless God
 THE INITIAL OBJECTION
 CHRISTOLOGICAL MODELS
 The Two-Minds View: The Basics
 Is the Two-Minds View Nestorian?
 What is the Unique Relationship between the Son and His Humanity?
 THE REDUPLICATIVE STRATEGY AND CONTRADICTORY PROPERTIES
 The Reduplicative Strategy, Presentism, and Endurantism