The essential objective of this study is to unpack the complicity between historians and secularization theory in the study of late ancient and early medieval Christianity—and then suggest a way out. In this work of historiography of religion, Enrico Beltramini argues that religious history is inherently secular and produces distorted representations of the Christian past. He suggests moving from an epistemological to a hermeneutical approach so that the supernatural worldview of the Christian past can be addressed on its own terms. This work also engages Markus’s saeculum and replaces Markus’s secularized relationship between the Kingdom and the government of the civitas with the Augustinian association of the Kingdom and divine government.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Gregory
- Problem
- Subject
- Argument
- Structure
- Method and Terms
- Conclusion
- 1. Sacramental Ontology
- In Its Own Terms
- Two Books
- Sacramental Ontology
- Sacramental Ontology
- Secular and Sacred History
- 2. Ontological Turn
- Ontology and Christian Historians
- Against Dualism
- Against Immanentism
- Ontological Turn
- 3. History and Theology
- On Method
- The supernatural
- Post-secular History
- History and Theology (I)
- History and Theology (II)
- 4. Saeculum
- Introduction
- Saeculum
- Definitions
- Secular and Desecularization
- Political Augustinianism
- Final Remarks
- 5. Ancient and Modern Christianity
- Introduction
- Christendom
- Christendom and Modern Church
- Reform of the Church (Aggiornamento)
- Aggiornamento and Return to the Sources
- 6. Augustinianisms
- Introduction
- Nature and Grace
- Augustinian Scholasticism
- Neoplatonic Augustinianism
- 7. Saeculum Retold
- Introduction
- Prophecy and Sacred Institutions
- General and Individual Eschatology
- Secularity and Holiness
- Biblical References
- Conclusion
- Introduction
- Beyond Divides
- Markus’s Saecular
- History and Theology
- Christian Philosophy and History
- Further Directions
- One Last Thought
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Latin Primary Sources
- Additional Critical Editions of Latin Texts
- Scripture
- Additional Editions of Scripture
- Other Sources
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
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