What was St. Augustine's theory of time?

will analyze Augustine's theory of time. I will argue that Augustine develops two accounts of time. 1. Time is a creature of God. 2. Time is a phenomenon of human consciousness. The first account of time, that is to say, time seen as a creature of God has three characteristics. First, time is not eternal. read more

Augustine was an eternalist. He held that the past, present, and future all co-exist. Think of it this way, the front, middle and back of a car all co-exist, so Augustine believed it was with time. read more

Marilyn E. Ravicz,"St. Augustine: Time and Eternity," Thomist: a Speculative Quarterly Review, 22 (1959): 552. 8 understanding of the distentio of time and the past present of memory by relating that,"The present moment is continually filled by the memory, which holds images of past events. read more

An Analysis of the Concept of Time in the Confessions, Book 11 by Augustine of Hippo. by Eric Rosenfield. In 1917, Albert Einstein completed work on the General Theory of Relativity, one of the rules of which states that time is fundamentally bound to matter and gravity, and that without matter there would be no time. read more

Augustine's Confessions demonstrate his understanding of time and eternity. Time, according to Augustine, is the process by which our soul is"stretched out" within the temporal so that we experience life events successively. read more

Oddly, this concept was presaged almost 1,300 years before that when Bishop Augustine of Hippo (later St. Augustine) put forth the idea that when God created the Heavens and the Earth, he created time itself as well. read more