Zeit und Ewigkeit als Raum göttlichen Handelns

By Reinhard G. Kratz, Hermann Spieckermann

Subjects: Congresses, Time, Evigheten, Religiösa aspekter, Islam, Religion, Religious aspects, Eternity, Space, God, Bibel, Zeit, Attributes, Space and time, Tid, Ewigkeit, Philosophie, Time, religious aspects

Description: Main description: The volume contains the papers from an international symposium held in 2007 by the Göttingen Graduate School on Images of Gods- Images of God- World Views: Polytheism and Monotheism in the Antique World. Working from the topic of Time and Eternity as Places of Divine Action, the contributors examine differing conceptions of time and eternity in a cultural region with intensive exchange. The papers deal with the Ancient Orient (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran),ancient philosophy (Aristotle, Plato, Stoa) and the three world religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam.