ABSTRACT
To speak of Saint Augustine's philosophy of history is anachronistic in more than one way. Just because the dispensations of divine providence for the salvation of mankind are temporal, it takes historia, a narrative of things past, and prophecy, a narrative of things to come, to represent them. The reason for claiming that Augustine regards history as homogeneous is that otherwise sacred and profane narratives could not so much as contradict each other, nor could the secular story support the chronology of the sacred one, as again according to Augustine it sometimes does. Augustine does not doubt that the extrahuman world is older than humanity, though he cannot say by how much. The prehuman world is a world of nature. The human history is divided into three parts. There was a time of faultless humanity, there is the time of sinful humanity, there will be a time of pardy redeemed, pardy damned humanity.
