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    A conception of how God relates to time is a defining ele... — Carmelics
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    A conception of how God relates to time is a defining element of any conception of God.

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    • 1.How one sees God's relationship to time has repercussions throughout philosophy of religion and philosophical theology.
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    • 2.God's relationship to time bears on how much and in what ways God's nature differs from ours.
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    • 3.God's relationship to time bears on how much can meaningfully be said about what God is like, as opposed to how God is not.
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    • 1.How one sees God's relationship to time has repercussions throughout philosophy of religion and philosophical theology.
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    • 2.God's relationship to time bears on how much and in what ways God's nature differs from ours.
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    • 3.God's relationship to time bears on how much can meaningfully be said about what God is like, as opposed to how God is not.
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    • 1.Apophatic traditions (Maimonides, Pseudo-Dionysius) hold that God's nature resists all positive predication, including temporal or atemporal categorization.
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    • 2.If no conception of God's relation to time is warranted, then such a relation cannot be a *defining element* of any adequate conception of God.
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    • 1.Process theologians (Whitehead, Hartshorne) define God primarily through relational dipolar nature, making temporality derivative of God's responsive love, not definitionally foundational.
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    • 2.If God's defining attribute is relational creative advance rather than temporal status, then time-relation is a consequence of God's nature, not its constitutive core.
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    The reason for this long-standing and continued interest is straightforward. How one sees God’s relationship to time has repercussions throughout philosophy of religion and philosophical theology. How much and in what ways does God’s relationship to time, and thus his nature, differ from ours? How much can meaningfully be said about what God is like, as opposed to how God is not? How, if at all, can an unchanging God interact with the world, affect history, or respond to petitionary prayer? And even, how should one think of the relation between science and theistic religion; can empirical find...
    Extraction notes

    Validity: The premises collectively demonstrate that God's relationship to time has wide-ranging implications across multiple fundamental theological and philosophical questions, which rationally supports the conclusion that it is a defining element of any conception of God, and this argument structure is explicitly present in the source passage.

    Confidence: The passage explicitly argues from the wide-ranging repercussions of God's relationship to time to the conclusion that it is a defining element of any conception of God.

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