caa a22 4500 386387133 CHVBK 20180307112101.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0034412500001815 doi S0034412500001815 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0034412500001815 Padgett Alan G. Oriel College, Oxford God and Time: Toward a New Doctrine of Divine Timeless Eternity [Elektronische Daten] [Alan G. Padgett] In this essay I wish to defend the intuition that God transcends time, of which he is the Creator. To do this, I will develop a new understanding of the term ‘timeless eternity' as it applies to God. This assumes the inadequacy of the traditional notion of divine eternity, as it is found in Boethius, Anselm and Aquinas. Very briefly, the reasons for this inadequacy are as follows. God sustains the universe, which means in part that he is responsible for the fundamental ontological status of things. Because the universe is an everchanging reality, things do change in their fundamental ontological status at different times - a change we must ascribe to God, and cannot ascribe to the objects themselves, since this has to do with their very existence. God himself, therefore, does different things at different times. This implies change in God. Whenever a change occurs, a duration occurs. Therefore, God is in time. But I do not think it is proper to say that God is in our time. God transcends time, and he is the Creator of our space-time. It is theologically more proper to say that we are in God's time, and I will adopt this language here. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Religious Studies Cambridge University Press 25/2(1989-06), 209-215 0034-4125 25:2<209 1989 25 RES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500001815 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500001815 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Padgett Alan G. Oriel College, Oxford NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Religious Studies Cambridge University Press 25/2(1989-06), 209-215 0034-4125 25:2<209 1989 25 RES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge