The article deals with the character of interrelation of the sacral and the historical time is exposed in different religious traditions. The special attention is spared to the understanding of the sacred history and its value is shown for the forming of pictures of orientation of historical process. In the article is underlined, that world religions in relation to history come forward as outhistorical, historical and transhistorical. The christian understanding of historical time is compared with the understanding, inherent to the other religiously-cultural traditions.
Keywords: time, eternity, history, sacral, transhistory, sacred history, desacralization
Шелюто Владимир Михайлович –д. филос.н., к. ист. н, профессор кафедры мировой философии и теологии Луганского государственного университета имени Владимира Даля.