NOTE ON OCCURRENCES AND MEANINGS OF SAECULUM IN AUGUSTINE

Abstract

In this technical note, I analyze the meanings, ambiguities and equivocities of saeculum in Confessions, XI, and The city of God, XIII, i; XV, i and XXI, to better understand the Augustinian conceptions of “eternity”, “time”, “universal history”, “cosmic time”, “historical time” and “world”.