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Time and eternity in mid-thirteenth-century thought [electronic resource] / Rory Fox.
Material type:
TextSeries: Oxford theological monographsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (390 p.)ISBN: - 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
- 115.09/022 22
- BT78 .F69 2006eb
Contents:
Summary: 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.
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.
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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.
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