In this book, Kurt Appel works out a theory of time, starting from Leibniz, Kant, Schelling’s late philosophy and Hegel. He demonstrates the central role of the concept of time in their philosophical and theological concept.
Time, as we usually consider it, is the linear and mechanical one of the chronometer. It expands ad infinitum, always in the same way. It is a continuum without quality, neutral and aseptic. The book discusses the relationship between the secular time and the biblical time questioning the presuppositions of the first.
Appel tries to show that the biblical concept of time abrogates (aufheben) the secular concept of historiography based on the chronological time and leads to the name of God whose dignity lies in the vulnerability and the openness of being.