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This dissertation demonstrates that Church Fathers from Justin Martyr (100-165) through Isidore of Seville (560-636) developed a Christian philosophy of time, eternity, events, and history that was sufficiently universal in scope that it was used by Christian historians to appro…

This work represents the first significant portion of a novel in progress. It is a first-person narration following a teenage boy’s involvement with a modern-day prophet. The story examines the nature of visionary belief systems and the ways in which they can degrade a person’s …

Thesis directed by Professor Christopher Braider This dissertation contends that harmonious conceptions of eternity, time, and history underwrite political, religious, and social institutions, whilst discordant ones dismantle them by sustaining dissent or even inciting revolutio…

The subject of this study is Mír Dámád's theory of perpetual creation and the trifold division of existence into time, perpetuity, and eternity, as explained in Dámád's greatest philosophical work, Kitáb al-Qabasát , which he completed about six years before his death. Mír Dámád…