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“The End of the Timeless God” — that’s the title of a book by philosopher and theologian Ryan Mullins, one of today’s leading scholars on the nature of time. Recently, he published another work continuing this grand discussion. In this podcast, we talk with him about how he came to the conclusion that time is one of God’s attributes.

But that’s not all! We’ll also discuss:

• Why did God decide to create this world if He needs nothing?
• What was God doing before creation?
• Does God have emotions?
• How do divine foreknowledge and predestination work?

This episode is packed with fascinating ideas! Join us if you’re interested in deep reflections on the nature of God, time, and reality.

👤 PODCAST GUEST

R.T. Mullins (PhD, University of St Andrews; Dr. Habil., University of Helsinki) — philosopher and theologian, author of works on the relationship between God and time. He has published over 70 papers on various topics in philosophical theology, including models of God, the philosophy of time, personal identity, the problem of evil, the theology of disability, and the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation. Mullins has held research and teaching positions at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Cambridge, the University of St Andrews, the Universities of Edinburgh and Helsinki, and Palm Beach Atlantic University. When he’s not doing philosophical theology, you can find him at metal concerts.

• Dr. Mullins’s website: https://www.rtmullins.com/
• Book The End of the Timeless God: https://a.co/d/89Aeqdh
• Book God and Emotion: https://a.co/d/2KsPXMm
• Book Eternal in Love: A Little Book About a Big God: https://a.co/d/7kVkVDC
• Book From Divine Timemaker to Divine Watchmaker: Explorations in God's Temporality: https://a.co/d/001eU6R

🔎 TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Preview
1:02 Intro
2:11 How did you become a Christian, and why did you decide to study philosophy of religion — and philosophy in general?
3:48 Why did God decide to create this world?
5:41 If creating something was valuable to God, doesn’t that mean He needed something?
6:53 God has emotions. Can we say that God feels good emotions toward creation, and that’s why He creates?
8:31 If God has emotions, doesn’t that create contradictions within His mental life?
11:43 What was God doing before creation?
13:25 What is time in the most fundamental sense?
17:30 Has God always been within time?
20:19 Can we talk about time without God?
23:42 Isn’t that a problem for the Kalam cosmological argument?
26:58 What do you think of models in which God created time (especially William Lane Craig’s)?
30:23 How could the Trinity have eternal relationships without sequence or interaction?
32:50 Can analyzing the nature of time help determine the correct model of God?
36:15 At the beginning of your book, you say one can build arguments for God’s existence based on absolute time. What do you mean?
38:15 How does a temporal model of God affect our understanding of time as a physical phenomenon?
41:40 How does a temporal model of God help address questions of divine foreknowledge and predestination?
46:32 How do you evaluate C.S. Lewis’s argument for God’s timelessness (the “book” example)?
48:19 What about the idea of God’s “Cambridge properties” — that everything changes in the world, but not in God?
53:53 What simple argument can one give to show ordinary people that God is indeed related to time?
56:38 Which books would you recommend to listeners who want to start thinking about these questions?
58:32 Who is your favorite philosopher?
59:50 Conclusion

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