God Above Time
Rev. Angus Stewart defends the classical Reformed doctrine of God's timelessness (divine atemporality) against the modern tendency toward viewing God as temporal or everlasting. The article traces this doctrine through church history from the church fathers through Calvin and the Reformed tradition, and identifies which theological movements reject divine timelessness, making it essential reading for understanding a foundational metaphysical claim in Reformed theology.
Rev. Angus Stewart (I) The Two Views of Divine Eternity That God is eternal is clearly and repeatedly taught in the Bible, in both the Old and the New Testaments. There is, however, a difference of opinion as to the meaning of God’s eternity. Basically there are two views. One is that God’s eternity means that He is from infinity past and will be to infinity future. This is the view of God’s eternity as everlasting or sempiternal. The other position, and the one defended here, is that God is...