ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how a Bergsonian ontological idealism about time impacts the relation between God and time in analytic philosophy of religion. It also responds to a problem left unresolved in the earlier chapters: if only the temporal extension of objects is mind-dependent, where do the other features of objects come from? This chapter argues that the Bergsonian idealist ontology proposed in the first half of the book is incomplete. While the temporal extension of objects may be relativised to human minds, the being of their non-temporal aspects requires an explanation. This explanation is God. This chapter demonstrates that the existence of temporal objects comes from two sources: timeless divinely created being and la durée.
