The essays in this volume explore the nature of time, our God-given
medium of ascent, known, as Augustine puts it, through the ordered
study of the "liberal disciplines that carry the mind to the divine
(disciplinae liberales intellectum efferunt ad divina)": grammar
and dialectic, for example, to promote thinking; geometry and
astronomy to grasp the dimensions of our reality; music, an
invisible substance like time itself, as an exemplary bridge to the
unseen substance of thoughts, ideas, and the nature of God
(theology). This ascending course of study rests on procedure,
progress, and attainment - on before, following, and afterwards -
whose goal is an ascending erudition that lets us finally
contemplate, as Augustine says in De ordine, our invisible medium -
time - within time itself: time is immaterial, but experienced as
substantial. The essays here look at projects that chronicle time
"from the beginning," that clarify ideas of creation "in time" and
"simultaneous times," and the interrelationships between measured
time and eternity, including "no-time." Essays also examine time as
revealed in social and political contexts, as told by clocks, as
notated in music and embodied in memorializing stone. In the final
essays of this volume, time is understood as the subject and medium
of consciousness. As Adrian Bardon says, "time is not so much a
'what' as a 'how'": a solution to "organizing experience and
modeling events." Contributors are (in order within the volume)
Jesse W. Torgerson, Ken A. Grant, Danielle B. Joyner, Nancy van
Deusen, Peter Casarella, Aaron Canty, Jordan Kirk, Vera von der
Osten-Sacken, Gerhard Jaritz, Jason Aleksander, Sara E. Melzer,
Mark Howard, Andrew Eschelbacher, Hans J. Rindisbacher, James F.
Knapp, Peggy A. Knapp, Raymond Knapp, Michael Cole, Ike Kamphof and
Leonard Michael Koff.
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