The language of time -- Temporal simultaneity -- Priority, posteriority, and causality -- Relations and reductions -- The reality of time -- On measurement and numbering -- Time and atemporality -- Sempiternity, angelic time, and the aevum -- Eternity -- God and time
Summary
Rory Fox challenges the traditional understanding that Thomas Aquinas believed that God exists outside of time. His study investigates the work of several mid-thirteenth century writers providing a wealth of material on medieval concepts of time and eternity
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-358) and indexes