From Divine Timemaker to Divine Watchmaker: An Exploration of God’s Temporality

by R.T. Mullins

This book offers the most extensive exploration of divine temporality to date. It focuses on five main questions. First, what is time? Second, how is God responsible for the existence of time? Third, what does it mean to say that God is temporal? Fourth, what kind of structure might God give to a time series? Fifth, what are the implications for theological doctrines such as the Trinity, creation, providence, and life after death? The author offers a deep, critical engagement with the Christian tradition but also goes beyond to build analytic bridges to Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, and Jainist philosophical theology. The book provides an up-to-date discussion of issues within analytic metaphysics, philosophy of time, and philosophy of religion and draws on the resources of contemporary systematic, historical, and biblical theology.

317 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 24, 2024

Reviews

[Yuri Cameron · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book. I’ve read every one of Mullin’s books (four and counting). Mullins is a great writer. He’s quite clear and will occasionally slip in a tiny sarcastic comment. Classic Mullins. The kid needs to read Aquinas.

Mullins jokes much more freely in Eternal In Love but this work is not as complex as End of a Timeless God from my perspective, yet a rather involved read.

I have to reread it but I very much appreciated his contemporary work on newer ontologies of time, such as hypertime, etc. I have bought Hudson’s work on The Metaphysics of Hyperspace for $10. Very cheap. I will now wait for his hypertime book. Anyways, Mullins good.