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.
Table of contents:
Marius Timmann Mjaaland, Ulrik Houlind Rasmussen and Philipp Stoellger: Introduction
I. Past in the FutureMarius 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 TimePhilipp 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 PastClaudia 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
