The Use And Abuse Of Eschatology In The Middle Ages
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The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle Ages
An interdisciplinary approach, wit hits comparative study of sources, helps to highlight the intellectual preoccupations of many religious thinkers who grappled with the overwhelming prospect of Universal destruction.
The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle Ages
The editors hope that enough material has been assembled to illustrate both the positive and the negative aspects of the eschatological element in mediaeval thought. An interdisciplinary approach, wit hits comparative study of sources, helps to highlight the intellectual preoccupations of many religious thinkers who grappled with the overwhelming prospect of Universal destruction, questioned the role of the individual in the economy of salvation, and attempted to see the relevance of everyday social and political events to a vision of history in which the end is nearer than the beginning.
The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages
An innovative overview of the influence of the Apocalypse on the shaping of the Christian culture of the Middle Ages.