Time and Eternity in Mid-Thirteenth-Century Thought [Hardcover]

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.

Introduction
1. The Language of Time
2. Temporal Simultaneity
3. Priority, Posteriority, and Causality
4. Relations and Reductions
5. The Reality of Time
6. On Measurement and Numbering
7. Time and Atemporality
8. Sempiternity, Angelic Time, and the Aevum
9. Eternity
10. God and Time

Rory Foxis an educational consultant.