God, the grandfather of time: Time and the absolute in the thought of Philo of Alexandria

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Temporal and timeless deity 9
6. From divine timemaker to divine watchmaker 33
7. Time’s arrow, relativity and God’s eternity: From the limitedness of creatures to the asymmetric structure of the worldline 57
8. God, the grandfather of time: Time and the absolute in the thought of Philo of Alexandria 71
9. The Muslim theologian Ibn Taymiyyah on God, creation and time 89
10. Historical eternity: The approaches of Wolfhart Pannenberg and Hans Urs von Balthasar 105
11. On the relation between God and time in the later theistic Vedānta of Madhva, Jayatīrtha and Veṅkaṭanātha 123
12. Analytic philosophy of time in Early Modern India 161
13. Non-persistence in time: A Buddhist account of intrinsic nature 191
14. Contributors 209
15. Authors/Persons 211
16. Works 213
17. Key-terms 215