Presentism, Atemporality, and Time’s Way

Faith and Philosophy 35 (2):173-194 (2018)
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After defining presentism, I consider four arguments that presentism and divine atemporality are incompatible. I identify an assumption common to the four, ask what reason there is to consider it true, and argue against it.

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