The Abbot and the Doctors: Scholastic Reactions to the Radical Eschatology of Joachim of Fiore
“Why are these fools awaiting the end of the world?” This remark, said to have been made by Pope Boniface VIII during the perusal of a Joachite treatise, typifies what must have been the reaction of many thirteenth century popes to the eschatological groups of the time. With some notable exceptions,...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1971
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Church history
Year: 1971, Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 30-47 |
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| Summary: | “Why are these fools awaiting the end of the world?” This remark, said to have been made by Pope Boniface VIII during the perusal of a Joachite treatise, typifies what must have been the reaction of many thirteenth century popes to the eschatological groups of the time. With some notable exceptions, the popes of the century were men from a single mold: lawyers, administrators, dynasty builders—men trained to expand the interests of the best organized and most efficient government in Europe, the church. Though it would be a serious error to see the concerns of these men as purely political, for religion and politics were mingled in the thirteenth century in inextricable fashion, there was a practicality and a sense of reality to the lawyer popes that shines through Boniface's impatient outburst at the visionary mutterings and interminable squabbles of those who thought the end was near. |
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| ISSN: | 1755-2613 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3163103 |