Time Lost and Time Regained: A Short Essay on the Eternity of God

In philosophy of religion and analytical theology there is a substantial debate about God’s relation to time.  The traditional, Christian theistic stance, championed by Boethius, Augustine, Aquinas, and others, is that  God is timelessly eternal. This is opposed by Nicholas Wolterstorff, Richard Swinburne, and some other  major philosophers of religion. Wolterstorff’s objections to the traditional position were examined to bring  to light how the critics of the belief that God is eternal fail to appreciate how the traditional stance is pitted  against anthropomorphism. It affirmed the unique self-subsistence of God as Creator, and the goodness of temporality.

Keywords: Anthropomorphism, eternity, God, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Richard Swinburne, temporality, time.