Time and Eternity in Mid-Thirteenth-Century Thought

Download or read book Time and Eternity in Mid-Thirteenth-Century Thought written by Rory Fox and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rory Fox challenges the traditional understanding that Thomas Aquinas believed that God exists totally outside of time. His study investigates the work of several mid-thirteenth-century writers, including Albert the Great and Bonaventure as well as Aquinas, examining their understanding of the topological and metrical properties of time. Fox thus provides access to a wealth of material on medieval concepts of time and eternity, while using the conceptual tools of modern analytic philosophy to express his conclusions.