Eternity and Time's Flow

Neville returns eternity to the center of consideration by analyzing the obsessive culture that attempts to get along denying it; and he analyzes the nature of time's flow itself, the nature of divine eternity, and the subtle problems of personal immortality. He argues that time and eternity constitute one topic and that, therefore, time itself is beyond understanding, beyond personal grasp, and beyond civilized orientation without a proper comprehension of eternity.

About the author

Robert Cummings Neville is Dean of the School of Theology and a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Boston University. He was President of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1989, of the American Academy of Religion in 1992, and of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy in 1992. He is the editor of New Essays in Metaphysics and he is the author of The Tao and the Daimon: Segments of a Religious Inquiry; The Puritan Smile: A Look Toward Moral Reflection; A Theology Primer; God the Creator: On the Transcendence and Presence of God; Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature; Reconstruction of Thinking; Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology; and The Highroad Around Modernism, all published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Cummings Neville
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1993
• EAN: 9780791415993
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1599-3
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 172 mm x 238 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 569 g
• Series: SUNY Series in Philosophy (Har; SUNY Series in Philosophy (Har; Suny Philosophy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Religion, allgemein, RELIGION / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy