rather the reversible time of the circling movements which set life permanently in the mode of duration, so that we can talk about a ‘life everlasting’ and a ‘world without end’. This is probably what Johann Rist meant with his paradox ‘time without time’ and ‘beginning without ending’.7 So we cannot argue that eternal life is either a perfection without life or a life that is not perfect and complete.8 The perfection too embraces love and creative movement. If this were not so, God himself would