As an interpreter of the Christian view of time, Basil the Great reveals to us a new perspective, which leads to a creative, transcendent synthesis. This new perspective, which was more than ancient Greek philosophy and, indeed, human thought in general were able to achieve, is offered by the Church. The Church, not as a worldly, social reality, but as the body of Christ, who ‘is, was and will come’ . As his body, which combines the dimensions of time and incorporates them as a person in the eternal ‘now’ of his presence. Within the Church, remembrance of the past becomes remembrance in Christ. Hope for the future becomes hope in Christ. This is why the life of Christians as ...
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