Time - Just the Tip of the Iceberg

The recurring theme, Augustine and Time, holds sway in both academic and popular works. However, most of the efforts focus on his Confessions XI, unfortunately, neglecting the rest of his corpus. Even in a cursory reading of it, a twin factor stands out and it permeates the entire corpus: The cluster of temporal notions he uses holds many more beyond the concepts of time and eternity and, its being posited in the cognition of the human mind. This serendipitous observation led to this hermeneutical probe into the inextricable link between temporality and human cognition that Augustine holds.

Johnson Srigiri is an ordained minister of the Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches in India, currently residing in Heidelberg, Germany.