Edling, Jan (Instytut Teologiczno-Pastoralny im. św. bpa Józefa Sebastiana Pelczara w Rzeszowie, 2013)
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”.
