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CRAIG, William Lane. Time and the Metaphysics of Relativity. Philosophical Studies Series 84. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. xi + 279 pp. Cloth, $92.00-Philosopher William Lane Craig of the Talbot School of Theology has published three other Kluwer books on time and eternity and God's relationship to them. In this book, Craig draws some important strands together regarding the concept of God and relativity theory. He notes the striking "paucity of integrative literature" in this regard: "I am convinced that this lack is largely due to the fact that theologians and philosophers of religion do not understand Einstein's theories and so are reduced to merely parroting what they read in scientific popularizations," resulting in "a superficial and uncritical interaction" (p. ix).
What many theologians and philosophers of religion fail to realize is how strongly verificationism has influenced the philosophy of time and space in the past century. The demise of positivism and the revival of philosophy of religion and metaphysics call for a reexamination of relativity theory and its metaphysical foundations. There is a need for "an accessible, largely non-mathematical and philosophically informed introduction to relativity theory...