Edmund Runggaldier – författare

"God is eternal" is a standard belief of all theistic religions. But what does it mean? If, on the one hand, "eternal" means timeless, how can God hear the prayers of the faithful at some point of time? And how can a timeless God act in order to answer the prayers? If God knows what I will do tomorrow from all eternity, how can I be free to choose what to do? If, on the other hand, "eternal" means everlasting, does that not jeopardize divine majesty? How can everlastingness be reconciled with the traditional doctrines of divine simplicity and perfection? An outstanding group of American, UK, German, Austrian, and Swiss philosophers and theologians discuss the problem of God's relation to time. Their contributions range from analyzing and defending classical conceptions of eternity (Boethius's and Aquinas's) to vindicating everlastingness accounts, and from the foreknowledge problem to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. This book tackles philosophical questions that are of utmost importance for Systematic Theology. Its highest aim is to deepen our understanding of religious faith by surveying its relations to one of the most fundamental aspects of reality: time.

"God is eternal" is a standard belief of all theistic religions. But what does it mean? If, on the one hand, "eternal" means timeless, how can God hear the prayers of the faithful at some point of time? And how can a timeless God act in order to answer the prayers? If God knows what I will do tomorrow from all eternity, how can I be free to choose what to do? If, on the other hand, "eternal" means everlasting, does that not jeopardize divine majesty? How can everlastingness be reconciled with the traditional doctrines of divine simplicity and perfection? An outstanding group of American, UK, German, Austrian, and Swiss philosophers and theologians discuss the problem of God''s relation to time. Their contributions range from analyzing and defending classical conceptions of eternity (Boethius''s and Aquinas''s) to vindicating everlastingness accounts, and from the foreknowledge problem to Einstein''s Special Theory of Relativity. This book tackles philosophical questions that are of utmost importance for Systematic Theology. Its highest aim is to deepen our understanding of religious faith by surveying its relations to one of the most fundamental aspects of reality: time.

"God is eternal" is a standard belief of all theistic religions. But what does it mean? If, on the one hand, "eternal" means timeless, how can God hear the prayers of the faithful at some point of time? And how can a timeless God act in order to answer the prayers? If God knows what I will do tomorrow from all eternity, how can I be free to choose what to do? If, on the other hand, "eternal" means everlasting, does that not jeopardize divine majesty? How can everlastingness be reconciled with the traditional doctrines of divine simplicity and perfection? An outstanding group of American, UK, German, Austrian, and Swiss philosophers and theologians discuss the problem of God''s relation to time. Their contributions range from analyzing and defending classical conceptions of eternity (Boethius''s and Aquinas''s) to vindicating everlastingness accounts, and from the foreknowledge problem to Einstein''s Special Theory of Relativity. This book tackles philosophical questions that are of utmost importance for Systematic Theology. Its highest aim is to deepen our understanding of religious faith by surveying its relations to one of the most fundamental aspects of reality: time.

"God is eternal" is a standard belief of all theistic religions. But what does it mean? If, on the one hand, "eternal" means timeless, how can God hear the prayers of the faithful at some point of time? And how can a timeless God act in order to answer the prayers? If God knows what I will do tomorrow from all eternity, how can I be free to choose what to do? If, on the other hand, "eternal" means everlasting, does that not jeopardize divine majesty? How can everlastingness be reconciled with the traditional doctrines of divine simplicity and perfection? An outstanding group of American, UK, German, Austrian, and Swiss philosophers and theologians discuss the problem of God's relation to time. Their contributions range from analyzing and defending classical conceptions of eternity (Boethius's and Aquinas's) to vindicating everlastingness accounts, and from the foreknowledge problem to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. This book tackles philosophical questions that are of utmost importance for Systematic Theology. Its highest aim is to deepen our understanding of religious faith by surveying its relations to one of the most fundamental aspects of reality: time.

Was sind menschliche Personen? Was zeichnet sie aus? Sind alle Menschen Personen? Sind sie es während ihres ganzen Lebens? Diese Fragen bewegen. Von ihrer Beantwortung hängt viel ab: für unser Selbst-Verständnis, für unseren Umgang miteinander. Der Zugang zur Klärung des Begriffs der Person in diesem Buch ist akttheoretisch. Die Inspiration dazu stammt von der aristotelisch-thomistischen Tradition, wonach die typischen Tätigkeiten eines Lebewesens Aufschluss über seine Vermögen und seine Vermögen Aufschluss über seine Natur geben. In den Beiträgen des vorliegenden Bandes reflektieren die Autoren diesen methodischen Zugang, legen ontologische Voraussetzungen frei, identifizieren typische Tätigkeiten von Personen, plädieren für die Annahme von Vermögen und verteidigen die Willensfreiheit. Mit Beiträgen von: Lynne Rudder Baker, Johannes Brachtendorf, Georg Gasser, Hans Kraml, Günther Pöltner, Timothy O''Connor, Thomas Schörtl, Edmund Runggaldier SJ.

Dualistische Ansichten über den Menschen galten bis vor kurzem als veraltet oder gar als tot. In neuester Zeit sind sie aber von namhaften Philosophen zu neuem Leben erweckt worden. Warum vertreten sie dualistische Positionen? War Platon Dualist? Brauchte Aristoteles einen Dualismus? Müssen Christen, die an die Auferstehung glauben, den Menschen dualistisch deuten? Gibt es eine aristotelische Mittelposition zwischen Naturalismus und Dualismus? Teilen Naturalisten und Dualisten ein problematisches Körperverständnis? Antworten auf diese Fragen finden Sie in den Beiträgen des vorliegenden Buches. Mit Beiträgen von Eleonore Stump, Richard Swinburne, Uwe Meixner, Edmund Runggaldier, Bruno Niederbacher, Josef Quitterer, Anselm Winfried Müller, Michael Bordt, Uwe Voigt, Marianne Schark, Michael-Thomas Liske.