ABSTRACT
The nature and significance of time are the fundamental problem and premiss of every philosophy of history. The conception of the relation existing between time and eternity has left a deep impression upon the Christian consciousness, which tended to favour the view that the nature of time did not affect the depths of divine life. The postulate of the metaphysics of history, based upon the relation of time and eternity, raises the essential problem, most closely connected with concrete history, of the relation between the past, the present and the future. A change and transformation of man's interior history was imperative in the light of the New Testament, of the New Adam and of the new man, who had thrown off the yoke of natural necessity and the wrath of God. Man's celestial history is now brought to an end and he enters upon his terrestrial history and destiny.
