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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.

Table of Contents
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
SACRAMENTAL ONTOLOGY
ONTOLOGICAL TURN
HISTORY AND THEOLOGY
SAECULUM
ANCIENT AND MODERN CHRISTIANITY
AUGUSTINIANISMS
SAECULUM RETOLD
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Desecularizing the Christian Past: Beyond R.A.

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      Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 25/04/2023
      ISBN13: 9789463721882, 978-9463721882
      ISBN10: 9463721886

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      FOREWORD
      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
      ABBREVIATIONS
      INTRODUCTION
      SACRAMENTAL ONTOLOGY
      ONTOLOGICAL TURN
      HISTORY AND THEOLOGY
      SAECULUM
      ANCIENT AND MODERN CHRISTIANITY
      AUGUSTINIANISMS
      SAECULUM RETOLD
      CONCLUSION
      BIBLIOGRAPHY

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