By Nelson Pike
Christian theologians are agreed that God is everlasting. in spite of the fact that, confrontation arises in the Christian culture over the fitting interpretation to receive to the note 'eternal'. Professor Nelson Pike examines a technique of figuring out the doctrine of divine eternity that has had enormous prominence within the writings of either Catholic and Protestant theologians. in this interpretation, to assert that God is everlasting is to assert that God exists 'outside of time'; in different phrases, that God is 'timeless'. Professor Pike undertakes to reveal either the strengths and shortcomings of this research of God's eternity.
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