Time and eternity in mid-thirteenth-century thought

Fox, Rory.

Time and eternity in mid-thirteenth-century thought [electronic resource] / Rory Fox. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - 1 online resource (390 p.) - Oxford theological monographs . - Oxford theological monographs. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [330]-358) and indexes.

The language of time -- Temporal simultaneity -- Priority, posteriority, and causality -- Relations and reductions -- The reality of time -- On measurement and numbering -- Time and atemporality -- Sempiternity, angelic time, and the aevum -- Eternity -- God and time.

Rory Fox challenges the traditional understanding that Thomas Aquinas believed that God exists outside of time. His study investigates the work of several mid-thirteenth century writers providing a wealth of material on medieval concepts of time and eternity.

9780191536595 (electronic bk.) 0191536598 (electronic bk.)


Time--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Eternity--History--To 1500.
PHILOSOPHY--Metaphysics.
Eternity -- History -- To 1500.
Eternity -- History.
Time -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Time -- Religious aspects.
Religion.
Philosophy.


Electronic books.

BT78 / .F69 2006eb

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