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Trinity, temporality, and open theism

Richard Rice

pp. 299-307

Abstract

A number of thinkers today, including open theists, find reasons to attribute temporality to God. According to Robert W. Jenson, the Trinity is indispensable to a Christian concept of God, and divine temporality is essential to the meaning of the Trinity. Following the lead of early Christian thought, Jenson argues that the "persons' of the Trinity are relations, and these relations are temporal. Jenson's insights are obscured, however, by problematic references to time as a sphere to which God is related. Schubert M. Ogden gives the notion of divine temporality coherent content by arguing that God's actuality is best understood as an unending succession of experiences. This paper was delivered in the APA Pacific 2007 Mini-Conference on Models of God.

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Diller Jeanine, Kasher Asa (2013) Models of God and alternative ultimate realities. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 299-307

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5219-1_25

Full citation:

Rice Richard (2013) „Trinity, temporality, and open theism“, In: J. Diller & A. Kasher (eds.), Models of God and alternative ultimate realities, Dordrecht, Springer, 299–307.