Le Poidevin, R orcid.org/0000-0002-7185-9440 (2017) ‘Eternity Shut in a Span’: The Times of God Incarnate. In: Kvanvig, JL, (ed.) Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, 8 . Oxford University Press , Oxford, UK , pp. 207-226. ISBN 9780198806967
Abstract
Consider these central tenets of the Christian creeds: God the Father is the creator of all things; God the Son is of one substance with the Father; the Son became incarnate in Jesus Christ. Is there a tension between these? Perhaps. Consider the following: ‘if the Father is creator of all things including time, then he must be in some sense outside time. And as the Son is of one substance with the Father, then he too must be outside time. But becoming incarnate is to come to be in time, and no timeless being can become temporal.’ We may call this problem ‘the temporal paradox of the incarnation.’ This paper argues that the problem is especially acute on a substantivalist conception of (space-)time, according to which(space-)time is independent of its contents, and it explores an alternative, reductionist picture which offers a resolution of the temporal paradox of the incarnation.
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Keywords: | incarnation; time; timelessness; creation; substantivalism |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Jul 2017 13:58 |
Last Modified: | 28 Sep 2019 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Series Name: | Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/oso/9780198806967.003.0009 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:118422 |