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CRAIG, William Lane. God, Time, and Eternity: The Coherence of Theism 11.Eternity. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. xi + 321 pp. Cloth, $105.00-In his companion volumes by Kluwer, The Tensed Theory of Time: A Critical Examination and The Tenseless Theo?7j of Time: A Critical Examination, William Craig makes a persuasive case for the A- (tensed) theory of time and against the 13- (tenseless) theory of time. In the present volume Craig addresses the relationship of God to time. He concludes his book: "given a tensed theory of time and the attendant reality of tense and temporal becoming, the most plausible construal of divine eternity is that God is timeless sans creation and temporal since creation" (p. 284).
To show this, Craig divides his book into two parts. In part 1, entitled "The Nature of Divine Eternity," he examines the arguments for divine timelessness. In chapter 1 ("The Case for Divine Timelessness"), he examines sixteen arguments (focusing chiefly on divine atemporalist Brian Leftow), and, frankly, there is not much left standing after Craig's demolition job. The divine timelessness position is fraught with misrepresentations, non sequiturs, and...