This article analyzes the conditions of the occurrence, key ideas and the success factors of temporalism - the dominant position describing God's relation to time in contemporary analytic philosophy. Unlike traditional eternalism, which treats the being of God in terms of time transcendence, i.e., timelessness and the absence of duration, temporalism assumes the existence of God in the past, present and future, i.e., His principal temporality. Despite the fact that the idea of divine eternity as transcendence is traditionally viewed as an integral part of Christian doctrine, key proponents of temporalism - Nicholas Wolterstorff, Richard Swinburne, and Anthony Kenny - sought to prove, first, eternalism's origins in pagan Greek philosophy that is alien to Christianity; second, the incompatibility of the traditional concept of eternity with the fundamental form of biblical The study was carried out within the framework of the Basic Research Program of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) and with the use of the state support grant allocated by the National Research University Higher School of Economics for leading universities of the Russian Federation in order to increase their competitiveness among the world's leading research and educational centers. Pleshkov A. Ponyatie "vechnost '"v sovremennoi analiticheskoi teologii: vyzvok temporalizma [The concept of "eternity" in modern Analytical theology: the Challenge of temporalism]. 2017. N 2. pp. 264-289. Pleshkov, Alexey (2017) "The Concept of Eternity in Contemporary Analytic Theology: The Challenge of Temporalism", Gosudarstvo, religiia, tserkov' v Rossii i za rubezhom 35(2): 264-289. page 264thought; finally, strict rationality, and hence better compatibility of temporalism with the achievements of contemporary philosophy. The reanimation of classical theological questions through temporalism, together with openness to the actual philosophical agenda, contributed to the further productiv ... Read more