Time&Eternity

Løgstrup, Knud E., 123
Lord’s Supper, 24, 31, 36–37, 46–47
Lorentz, Hendrik, 142
Lorentz Transformation, 143
love, 105, 193–94, 197, 209, 213, 218–19. See
also relationality
lunar years, 68
Luther, Martin, 99, 178
Mahlmann, Theodor, 4, 217–19
Mandelbrot, Benoît, 169
Mann, Robin, 35
Manzke, Karl Hinrich, 89
Marti, Kurt, 53
Marx, Karl, 111
Maxwell, James Clerk, 142
measurability of time. See also being and becoming;
speed of light
clocks and, 148, 180
duration and, 125
eternity and, 93
extension and, 91
impossibility of, 164, 173, 230
infinity and, 88
light and, 143–44
motion as, 91, 125–26
observers and, 91, 127, 143, 152–55, 177, 191
processes for, 150–54
memory, 91, 217–18
Michelson-Morley experiment, 143
millenarianism, 202, 220. See also apocalyptic
time
Minkowski, Hermann, 145–47
modernism, 191, 193
modes of time. See advent; future; past;
present
Moltmann, Jürgen, 83, 199, 202–3, 210,
213–14, 220–26
Monod, Jacques, 204
More, Henry, 128
Morenz, Siegfried, 67
Mortensen, Viggo, 123
movement/motion
absolute time and, 125–30, 146
quantum theory and, 174–75, 178
theories of relativity and, 143–49
time and, 72, 91, 119, 125, 165, 173
the Trinity and, 194
Muilenburg, James, 73
index 341
multi-temporality. See also complexity; relationality
eschatology and, 198
models of, 185, 228
relationality and, 116, 124, 190
of the Spirit, 98–100, 106–9, 208, 221
musical time, 56–57, 72
mystical time, 231
mythical time, 67, 69–70, 83, 90, 115
narration. See also hymns
biblical, 64, 81
identity and, 192
time and, 2, 11–12, 193, 226, 230–31
types of, 44–47, 55–56
nature, theology of, 122, 193
Negative Theologie der Zeit (Theunissen), 225
Neoplatonism, 82
the “new,” 13, 80, 93–97, 109, 171, 212–17,
224–25. See also advent; being and becoming;
future
New Testament time concepts, 64, 72–81,
89, 219
Newton, Isaac, 89, 124–32, 134, 223, 228
non-linear systems, 168–70, 174
the “not-yet.” See the “already” and the “notyet”
observer roles, 91, 127, 143, 152–55, 191
Old Testament time concepts, 64–72, 81
Omega Point Theory, 205–6
ontological differentiation model
chaos theory and, 170
continuity and discontinuity, 97, 215–16
creation and, 101–2
eternity and, 72, 83–84, 89–93, 99–100,
186, 202, 225
open systems, 161–62, 166–69, 172, 174, 187
openness. See also causality; multitemporality
attitude of, 75, 81, 88, 177–78, 180, 187,
222
and determinism contrasted, 190, 208–12
of “having-time-for,” 63, 82
temporal, God’s, 226, 229
of time, 74–75, 124–25, 180, 208–12,
222–23, 228
Opticks (Newton), 128–31
“Order of Reality” (Heisenberg), 155