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CZAS I HISTORIA EPIFANEM BOGA W UJĘCIU ŚW. AUGUSTYNA
TIME AND HISTORY AS GOD’S EPIPHANY ACCORDING TO ST. AUGUSTINE

Author(s): Jan Edling
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Systematic Theology
Published by: Instytut Teologiczno-Pastoralny im. św. Józefa Sebastiana Pelczara w Rzeszowie
Keywords: history; revelation; creation; incarnation; redemption; presence of God

Summary/Abstract: Time and history play a special role in St. Augustine’s meaning of revelation. As “vestigum aeternitatis” (“traces of eternity”) are signs of presence of God in the world. Thus, the category of time and history, according to St. Augustine, is current in the whole process of revelation, starting from the work of creation, through the history of the Old Testament, until the final fulfillment of all.There is a very close relation between “the time of creation” and “the recovery time” and between “the old man time” and “time of the redeemed”. This communication occurred through the mystery of incarnation. The time of God’s Word incarnation connects other times. At the same, this moment is the beginning of the revelation of grace and redemption which has its roots in the “old times”.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 18-20
  • Page Range: 81-104
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish