God, Time, and the Incarnation

The dominant view among Christian theologians and philosophers is that God is timeless-that he exists outside of time in an a temporal eternity. In God, Time, and the Incarnation, Richard Holland offers a critical evaluation of this traditional view in light of the most central doctrine of Christianity: the Incarnation of Christ. Holland reviews the history of the controversy, highlighting the various theological problems for which a temporal models were offered as a solution. He asserts the central importance of the Incarnation for Christian theology, and evaluates both temporal and a temporal models in light of this doctrine. Finally, he suggests that the traditional a temporal view is not compatible with a robust and orthodox view of the Incarnation, and so it rejects the a temporal view of God's relationship to time, thus providing an argument based on the Incarnation that God experiences temporal sequence in his existence.