What is time? Did it have a beginning? Will it ever end? These are profound
questions that have been asked by serious thinkers over the centuries. Both
philosophers and theologians have offered dynamic worldviews to accommodate
new facts and ideas about time and change. This encyclopedia surveys those
major facts, concepts, theories, and speculations that infuse our present
comprehension of time. Its inclusive orientation recognizes the contributions
of not only scientists and philosophers, but also theologians and creative
artists from various fields.

Features

* Surveys historical thought about time, including those ideas that emerged
in ancient Greece, early Christianity, the Italian Renaissance, the Age of
Enlightenment, and other periods
* Covers the original and lasting insights of evolutionary biologist Charles
Darwin, physicist Albert Einstein, philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, and
theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
* Discusses the significance of time in the writings of Isaac Asimov, Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Francesco Petrarch, H. G. Wells, and
numerous other authors
* Contains the contributions of naturalists and religionists, including
astronomers, cosmologists, physicists, chemists, geologists, paleontologists,
anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, and theologians
* Includes artists. portrayals of the fluidity of time, including painter
Salvador Dali.s The Persistence of Memory and The Discovery of America by
Christopher Columbus, and writers Gustave Flaubert.s The Temptation of Saint
Anthony and Henryk Sienkiewicz.s Quo Vadis
* Provides a truly interdisciplinary approach, with discussions of Aztec,
Buddhist, Christian, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Hindu, Islamic, Navajo, and many
other cultures. conceptions of time.

Key Themes

Biography
Biology/Evolution
Culture/History
Geology/Paleontology
Philosophy
Physics/Chemistry
Psychology/Literature
Religion/Theology
Theories/Concepts

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