SPACE AND TIME FROM A NEO-WHITEHEADIAN PERSPECTIVE.
Russell Stannard distinguishes between objective time as measured in theoretical physics and subjective time, or time as experienced by human beings in normal consciousness. Because objective time, or four-dimensional space-time for the physicist, does not change but exists all at once, Stannard arg...
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=24165515&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 24165515 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 05912385 ZYG jtl: Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science issn: 05912385 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2007 vid: 42 iid: 1 pid: 15576 pub: Open Library of Humanities artinfo: ui: 24165515 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2006.00803.x ppf: 41 ppct: 7 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 45KB tig: atl: SPACE AND TIME FROM A NEO-WHITEHEADIAN PERSPECTIVE. aug: au: Bracken, Joseph A. affil: Professor Emeritus of Theology at Xavier University, 3800 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45207-1049; e-mail bracken@xavier.edu. su: Immutability of God Metaphysics Doctrinal theology Spacetime Trinity Creation sug: subj: Immutability of God Metaphysics Doctrinal theology Spacetime Trinity Creation keyword: actual occasions and future creation divine initial aims efficient causality eternity final causality God-world relationship present space-time structured field of activity time (A-series versus B-series) togetherness of past Whiteheadian societies ab: Russell Stannard distinguishes between objective time as measured in theoretical physics and subjective time, or time as experienced by human beings in normal consciousness. Because objective time, or four-dimensional space-time for the physicist, does not change but exists all at once, Stannard argues that this is presumably how God views time from eternity which is beyond time. We human beings are limited to experiencing the moments of time successively and thus cannot know the future as already existing in the same way that God does. I argue that Stannard is basically correct in his theological assumptions about God's understanding of time but that his explanation would be more persuasive within the context of a neo-Whiteheadian metaphysics. The key points in that metaphysics are (1) that creation is contained within the structured field of activity proper to the three divine persons of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and (2) that the spontaneous decisions of creatures are continually ordered and reordered into an ever-expanding totality already known in its fullness by the divine persons. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science is the property of Open Library of Humanities and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science holder: Open Library of Humanities dt: @attributes: year: 2007 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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