Studia Theologica 2024, 26(2):61-79 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2024.009400

Večitá Božia prítomnosť v relativisticky chápanom vesmíre

Ľuboš Rojka
Pontificia Università Gregoriana
Facoltà di Filosofia
Piazza della Pilotta 4
00187 Roma
Žilinská univerzita v Žiline
Fakulta humanitných vied
Univerzitná 8215/1
010 26 Žilina

The Temporal Presence of God in a Relativistic Universe

The traditional concept of a temporarily present God in Open Theism more closely aligns with religious and biblical understandings of God than does the classical timeless concept. Divine temporal knowledge and causality require, however, a dynamic theory of time and absolute time, concepts that most theorists of relativity challenge. The standard version of presentism, as proposed by W. L. Craig, has not been well received in the scientific community. A more effective solution to conceptualizing God’s temporal presence in a relativistic universe involves reinterpreting the Theory of Relativity as pertaining to measurements of local times, which do not interfere with the unique cosmic “now”. In this view, Minkowski’s space-time does not need to be interpreted solely as a geometric representation of the effects of natural forces, as Craig suggests, but it can be argued that even if realistic, it does not exclude a unique present.

Keywords: Open Theism; Time; God; Eternity; Relativity

Vloženo: říjen 2023; Revidováno: únor 2024; Přijato: březen 2024; Zveřejněno: říjen 2024 


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