My interpretation of Ford's position, therefore, is that he construes the temporal character of an extended linear series of occasions to be a series of phases punctuated by demarcations of discontinuity. (religion-online.org)
The reasons for the difficulty in answering what time is are several, including the paradoxes of being and non-being; the experiential and emotional weightiness of the subject (consider, for example, the temporal character of hope, despair, regret, satisfaction, and boredom); and the metaphysical centrality of time in understanding such things as substances, events, causation, and consciousness. (religion-online.org)
It is not enough to oppose philosophical concepts of timeless eternity by asserting the temporal character of God's action in history (the economic Trinity). (firstthings.com)