The idea of timeless truth
about temporal things seems to me [Hartshorne] the ghost of medieval theism.»
We may need to repent of anxiety that has gripped us because we were worried
about temporal things.
Not exact matches
Now, you are telling us that it's
about the «proper order» of
temporal, natural
things here in this world (family, church) which, as far as you know, will cease when we get to heaven.
How can Christians talk
about the good
things in our lives without confusing
temporal stuff with true blessings?
Now there is much in Augustine
about this tendency of the soul to turn toward preoccupation with
temporal things, and much in condemnation of the body's lusts.
Good reasons would have to be forthcoming as to why «TrL» must always be tensed — at least as applied to sentences
about «
temporal things» «-- and why other predicates need not be.
Bergson was worried
about the interpretation of relativity theory proposed by Minkowski in which time is a fourth dimension of space and in which the experience of
temporal relations is analogous to shining a flashlight through the fourth dimension and finding the
things that are «already there» (timelessly there).
I am not a subscriber to the «great Man'theory of history, I favour the idea that the pressures of human desire, experience and history culminate occasionally in one individual whose socio - historical importance is inevitably (as humans) defined through the base circumstances of their physical and
temporal existence (i.e. the
thing we think first
about Einstein is the hair and the tongue, right?).
The spatio -
temporal chaos side is interesting though and must go on my list of
things to read up
about:)