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Author Goosen, Gideon.

Title Spacetime and theology in dialogue [electronic resource] / by Gideon Goosen.

Imprint Milwaukee, Wis. : Marquette University Press, c2008.

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Description 181 p.
Series Marquette studies in theology ; no. 57
Marquette studies in theology ; #57.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-172) and indexes.
Contents Some philosophical questions about space and time -- The Greek philosophers -- Time as moving according to number (Plato) -- Time a puzzle to Aristotle -- Plotinus expands on Aristotle -- Augustine and subjective time -- Is time real? (Kant) -- Temporality fundamental to being (Heidegger) -- Eternity? -- Insights from psychology and anthropology -- Hints about eternity -- Time standing still -- Jung and synchronicity -- Ontological importance of time (Panikkar) -- Is time linear or cyclic? -- Time and teleology -- Primal cultures and time -- What is science saying about spacetime? -- Time is relative -- From 3D to 4D -- Nature of spacetime a mystery -- Travel into future is possible -- There is no universal "now" -- Problem areas for theology -- Dominus Iesus -- Salvation and the liturgy -- Image of God -- Linear time -- Liturgical problems -- Theologians -- Cause and effect -- Dualisms : God as a receptacle -- Time as an illusion -- Image of God -- Model 1: Time as an illusion : time is now -- Liturgical time -- Kairic time -- Sacramentality and the patristic period -- Retro-active sacraments -- Postmodernism -- Application to spacetime -- Spatio-temporal constructions of humans -- Time as clockwork : a succession of events -- Model 2: Time as clockwork : a succession of events -- Time in the Bible -- Eschatological and apocalyptic time -- Creation out of nothing? -- Christ-centered time -- Points of convergence -- Time as becoming -- Model 3: time as becoming -- Process theology -- Does God know beforehand? -- The God-world relationship -- Incarnational dimension -- Some weaknesses in process theology -- Time as a secondary construction -- Model 4: time as a secondary construction -- A theological response -- Incarnation -- Free or not? -- Process theology and free will -- Conclusion -- A new concept : spacetime -- Trinitarian -- Incarnational -- Biblical -- Liturgical and sacramental -- Inclusive of synchronicity -- Acceptance of mystery of spacetime.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Philosophical theology.
Space and time -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Space and time.
Theology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Space time and theology in dialogue
ISBN 9780874627343 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0874627346 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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