What God Knows: Time and the Question of Divine Knowledge

227 Pages·2006·1.449 MB·English

by  Harry Lee Poe, J. Stanley Mattson

WHAT GOD KNOWS

WHAT GOD KNOWS

TIME, ETERNITY, AND DIVINE
KNOWLEDGE
Edited by
HARRY LEE POE
and
J. STANLEY MATTSON
Baylor University Press
Waco, Texas
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Preface
J. Stanley Mattson xiii
Introduction 1
1 Th e Problem of Time
Harry Lee Poe 5
2 St. Augustine and the Mystery of Time
Timothy George 27
3 On the Developing Scientifi c Understanding of Time
Russell Stannard 47
4 Time in Physics and Th eology
John Polkinghorne 61
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viii Contents
5 God, Time, and Eternity
William Lane Craig 75
6 Eschatology and Scientifi c Cosmology:
From Confl ict to Interaction
Robert John Russell 95
7 Time and the Physics of Sin
Hugh Ross 121
8 Meeting the Cosmic God in the Existential Now
Tony Campolo 137
Conclusion
Harry Lee Poe 161
Notes 177
List of Contributors 193
Index 197