Hyper-Past Evils: A Reply to Bogdan V. Faul

A reply to Bogdan V. Faul’s "Can God Promise Us a New Past? A Response to Lebens and Goldschmidt." In this reply we clarify why it is that we regard a scene-changing theory of time to be an improvement over presentism from a theological point of view. We present two benefits: a scene chang...

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Authors: Goldschmidt, Tyron 1982- (Author) ; Lebens, Samuel 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2020
In: Open theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 374-377
Further subjects:B hypertime
B necessary evil
B God
B Philosophy of time
B The problem of evil
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Summary:A reply to Bogdan V. Faul’s "Can God Promise Us a New Past? A Response to Lebens and Goldschmidt." In this reply we clarify why it is that we regard a scene-changing theory of time to be an improvement over presentism from a theological point of view. We present two benefits: a scene changing theory allows God (1) to improve the past and it allows him (2) to give free will to human beings whilst ensuring that they hyper-will never have misused it. More generally, the scene-changing theory when compared to presentism has the more compelling account of the badness of past evils.
ISSN:2300-6579
Contains:Enthalten in: Open theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/opth-2020-0119