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Divine Sempiternity and Atemporality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. L. Tomkinson
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Notable among the current fashions in philosophical theology is the movement away from the view that the mode of being properly attributable to God is some form of atemporal eternity. It sometimes seems almost to be the case that a consensus is in process of formation in support of the contention that the only rationally defensible interpretation of the divine eternity is in terms of sempiternity, i.e. of beginingless and endless temporal duration. This is true not only of the so-called ‘process theologians’, for leading theistic philosophers throughout the English-speaking world seem to be in something of a rush to espouse this particular cause.

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Religious Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , June 1982, pp. 177 - 189
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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