ABSTRACT
Time is more fundamental than space. Indeed, time is the most pervasive of all the categories. Some theologians say that God is outside time, but it cannot be true of any personal God that he is timeless, for a personal God is conscious, and time is a concomitant of consciousness. Measuring time seems equally mysterious. Different approaches bring different aspects of time into prominence but no single approach can reveal the whole nature of time, and each needs to be supplemented on occasion by the others. This chapter considers time as the condition of activity and as the actualization of the potential future into the fixed past, and discusses the directedness and the serial nature of time. Theories of space, together with those of Newtonian mechanics and relativity, have a profound bearing on the understanding of time.
