Basil the Great experienced the relationship between time and life and presented it in the most penetrating manner in his written works. His teaching on the subject, which had a profound effect on later theology and thinking in general, is still remarkably topical today. It is true that this great hierarch from Cappadocia did not write any systematic work on the matter, but in his interpretation of Scripture, and, in particular, the ‘Six Days’ of the Old Testament, as well as his rebuttal of the Eunomian heresy concerning the person of Christ, he often referred to time and the issues related to it. We usually divide time into three parts: the past, present and future. But this tripartite distinction seems not ...
