KAIROS: The Logos-Centred Chronosophy (Volume Two) continues S.C. Sayles' groundbreaking exploration of reality, consciousness, and the divine order through the lens of the Logos. Where CHRONOS (Volume One) laid the foundation with eight propositions on time's created nature and its role in the Information-Δ-Field (IΔF), this second volume (Propositions 9-20) plunges deeper into the mystery of temporality. Sayles presents a Logos-centred chronosophy-a theology and philosophy of time-that confronts one of humanity's oldest questions: What is time, and what is its meaning? Drawing on Scripture, the Church Fathers, Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and modern science, this volume unfolds twelve further propositions that show how time is covenantal, redemptive, and fulfilled in Christ: Time as Covenant - Days and seasons are not neutral but ordered by God's promises.Chronos & Kairos - Measured duration and appointed moments meet in Christ.Freedom & Providence - Real succession grounds responsibility under divine sovereignty.Election & Eternity - God's decree unfolds in temporal history without contradiction.Christ the Lord of Time - In the Incarnation, eternity enters succession.Resurrection & Renewal - Death is overturned; time is transformed into glory.Eschatological Time - The redeemed live in perfected succession, not timeless abstraction.Evil & Distortion - Sin bends time inward, but grace restores its true direction.The Consummation of Time - History ends not in entropy but in the glory of God.The Unity of Time & Eternity - The Logos unites beginning and end, Alpha and Omega.Sayles shows that the Bible's vision of time is not of meaningless cycles or endless decay, but of a covenantal drama moving toward consummation in Christ. Time is not an illusion to be escaped, nor a prison of finitude, but the arena of God's redemptive work. Written in the bold, propositional style of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, yet saturated with Scripture and Reformed theology, KAIROS is both rigorous and devotional. It bridges philosophy, theology, and cosmology, demonstrating that every moment of time-every heartbeat, every breath-is caught up into the eternal Logos. For readers of theology, philosophy of time, metaphysics, or anyone seeking to understand history and existence in light of Christ, this book offers a vision that is at once intellectually profound and spiritually transformative. Discover how time itself finds its meaning, redemption, and consummation in the Logos.
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