Theology

Impossible Time

Past and Future in the Philosophy of Religion
Ed. by Marius Timmann Mjaaland, Ulrik Houlind Rasmussen and Philipp Stoellger

[Unmögliche Zeit. Vergangenheit und Zukunft in der Religionsphilosophie.]

2013. VII, 253 pages.

Religion in Philosophy and Theology 68

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What is, then, time? How is the future formed by the past, and the past recurring within the future? How could time question the concept of God? How to reflect upon the impossible, yet unavoidable concept of time? The authors of this volume discuss the question of time and its paradoxes, not the least with the purpose of giving time, as a recurring topic for the philosophy of religion.
It is impossible not to discuss the question of time, at least for the philosophy of religion. However, to discuss the question of time is equally impossible, as the various perspectives presented in this volume show. Then what is time? Time is not, and yet everything is within time. Time is, but neither substance nor pure form. Being a dimension of all Being, not even God could or would withdraw from time. The authors of the contributions to this volume discuss the unavoidability of time and its paradoxes, not the least with the purpose of giving time, as a recurring topic for the philosophy of religion.
Survey of contents
Marius Timmann Mjaaland, Ulrik Houlind Rasmussen and Philipp Stoellger: Introduction

I. Past in the Future
Marius Timmann Mjaaland: What Is Time? Questioning Time with Aristotle, Augustine, and Heidegger – Werner Stegmaier: Vergangenheit in der Zukunft. Nietzsches Nachricht vom »Tod Gottes« – Iben Damgaard: Nietzsche and the Past – Jonna Bornemark: Religion at the Center of Phenomenology. Husserl's Analysis of Inner Time-Consciousness – Øystein Brekke: On the Subject of Epigenesis. An Interpretive Figure in Paul Ricoeur

II. Impossible Time
Philipp Stoellger: Philosophy of Religion – and its Sense for »the Impossible«. In the chiasm of memory and imagination (Between past's future and future's past) – Arne Grøn: Time and Transcendence. Religion and Ethics – Rebecca Comay: Tabula Rasa. David's Death of Marat and the Trauma of Modernity – Carsten Pallesen: »Northern Prince Syndrome«. Self-Affection and Self-Description in Post-Kantian Philosophy of Religion

III. Future of the Past
Claudia Welz: Future of the Past. Memory, Forgetting, and Personal Identity – Jan-Olav Henriksen: I need time for my 'self'. The Importance of Time for the Development of Religious Selfhood – Joseph Ballan: Liturgy, Inoperativity, and Time – Ulrik Houlind Rasmussen: The Absolutism of Boredom
Authors/Editors

Marius Timmann Mjaaland Born 1971; Associate Professor at the University of Oslo and President of the Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2182-4095

Ulrik Houlind Rasmussen Born 1977; Assistant Professor at Metropol College and affiliated with the University of Copenhagen.

Philipp Stoellger Geboren 1967; Studium der Ev. Theologie und Philosophie; 2000 Promotion; 2006 Habilitation; 2007–15 Lehrstuhl für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie an der Universität Rostock; seit 2015 Professor für Systematische Theologie, Dogmatik und Religionsphilosophie an der Universität Heidelberg; Leiter der Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft in Heidelberg.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4981-7743

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: Theologische Literaturzeitung — 139 (2014), S. 372–373 (Benedikt Paul Göcke)
In: Theological Book Review — 25 (2013), Heft 2
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