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Time in Eternity
According to Robert John Russell, one of the foremost scholars on relating Christian theology and science, the topic of ?time and eternity? is central to the relation between God and the world in two ways. First, it involves the notion of the divine eternity as the supratemporal source of creaturely time. Second, it involves the eternity of the eschatological New Creation beginning with the bodily Resurrection of Jesus in relation to creaturely time. The key to Russell\'s engagement with these issues, and the purpose of this book, is to explore Wolfhart Pannenberg\'s treatment of time and eternity in relation to mathematics, physics, and cosmology. Time in Eternity is the first book-length exposition of Russell\'s unique method for relating Christian theology and the natural sciences, which he calls ?creative mutual interaction? (CMI). This method first calls for a reformulation of theology in light of science and then for the delineation of possible topics for research in science drawing on this reformulated theology. Accordingly, Russell first reformulates Pannenberg\'s discussion of the divine attributes?eternity and omnipresence?in light of the way time and space are treated in mathematics, physics, and cosmology. This leads him to construct a correlation of eternity and omnipresence in light of the spacetime framework of Einstein\'s special relativity. In the process he proposes a new flowing time interpretation of relativity to counter the usual block universe interpretation supported by most physicists and philosophers of science. Russell also replaces Pannenberg\'s use of Hegel\'s concept of infinity in relation to the divine attributes with the concept of infinity drawn from the mathematics of Georg Cantor. Russell then addresses the enormous challenge raised by Big Bang cosmology to Christian eschatology. In response, he draws on Pannenberg\'s interpretation both of the Resurrection as a proleptic manifestation of the eschatological New Creation within histor ...

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