Debating the End Times with Bede
This article explores the discussions of world chronology and eschatology by the Venerable Bede (672/673–735) and what they reveal about the spectrum of ‘millenarian’ and other eschatological ideas at his monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow and in its Northumbrian milieu. Two works in which he comments on...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2015
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Irish theological quarterly
Year: 2015, Volume: 80, Issue: 3, Pages: 212-232 |
| Further subjects: | B
Millenarianism
B Chronology B Bede B Last Judgment B Eschatology B Wearmouth-Jarrow |
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| Summary: | This article explores the discussions of world chronology and eschatology by the Venerable Bede (672/673–735) and what they reveal about the spectrum of ‘millenarian’ and other eschatological ideas at his monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow and in its Northumbrian milieu. Two works in which he comments on ideas he rejected lie at the initial centre of inquiry: his letter of 708 to Plegwin and The Reckoning of Time, completed in 725. Early medieval millenarianism is commonly linked not simply with the belief that the timing of the End can be foreknown but with the apocalyptic notion that it is imminent. This was probably the expectation of certain of Bede’s brethren, yet he hints that he was also aware of fellow monks or clergy who speculated that both the Second Coming and the Eschaton lay in the remote future, long after their lives would have ended. Their assumption that Christ would not return soon, he seems to have feared, risked undermining moral will. |
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| ISSN: | 1752-4989 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Irish theological quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0021140015583243 |