TEHRAN-The Persian translation of the book “God and Time” written by Natalja Deng has been released in the Iranian bookstores.

Soroush Publications has published the book with a translation by Mohammad-Ebrahim Maghsoudi, Mehr reported.

Originally published in 2018, the book discusses the God of Western religions including Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, who is said to be eternal. But what does that mean? Is God somehow beyond time, living a life that does not involve one thing after another? Or is God's relationship to time much more like ours, so that God's eternality just consists in there being no time at which God doesn't exist?

Even for non-believers, these issues have interesting implications for the relation between historical and scientific findings on the one hand, and religion on the other. This element introduces the reader to the requisite metaphysical background and then examines reasons for and against thinking of God as timeless.

Deng is an associate professor of philosophy at Underwood International College, Yonsei University, Seoul/Incheon, South Korea. She was previously a postdoc at the University of Cambridge (within the TWCF project “Theology, philosophy of religion, and the sciences”), at the Center for Philosophy of Religion at Notre Dame, and at Eidos, the Genevan Centre for Metaphysics. She originally studied physical natural sciences at Cambridge, and then philosophy at Oxford.

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