"The time God has for us is constituted by his becoming present for us in Jesus Christ, ie Deus praesens. If we say Jesus Christ we also assert a human and therefore a temporal presence. ........ Revelation in the sense of Holy Scripture .... is an eternal, but not therefore a timeless, reality. It is also a temporal reality.
Revelation will never be discovered by anyone who undertakes to arrive at a kind of timeless core by abstracting from all times or from specific times, or who who attempts to rise from the human to the divine. It will never be discovered by one to whom its temporality is a worry, who thinks it his duty to pass by its temporality and interrogate and grasp its nature as something transcendently timeless. Revelation has its time, and only in and along with its time is it revelation. How otherwise can it be revelation to and for us, who are ourselves temporal to the core?" C.D. 1:2 page 50
And so the battle against misplaced abstraction goes on.
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