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The Concept of Eternity in Contemporary Analytic Theology: The Challenge of Temporalism

This article analyzes the conditions of the occurrence, key ideas and the success factors of temporalism — the dominant position describing God’s relation to time in contemporary analytic philosophy. Unlike traditional eternalism, which treats the being of God in terms of time transcendence, i. e., timelessness and the absence of duration, temporalism assumes the existence of God in the past, present and future, i. e., His principal temporality.

The “Last Times”: the Perception of Time by Residents of the Russian Province in the First Half of the 20th Century