Desecularizing the Christian past : beyond R. A. Markus and the religious-secular divide / Enrico Beltramini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beltramini, Enrico, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Markus, R. A., 1924-2010.

Markus, R. A.

Church historians.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

History.

Secularization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

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

Saeculum

Definitions

Secular and Desecularization

Political Augustinianism

Final Remarks

5. Ancient and Modern Christianity

Christendom

Christendom and Modern Church

Reform of the Church (Aggiornamento)

Aggiornamento and Return to the Sources

6. Augustinianisms

Nature and Grace

Augustinian Scholasticism

Neoplatonic Augustinianism

7. Saeculum Retold

Prophecy and Sacred Institutions

General and Individual Eschatology

Secularity and Holiness

Biblical References

Beyond Divides

Markus's Saecular

History and Theology

Christian Philosophy and History

Further Directions

One Last Thought

Bibliography

Latin Primary Sources

Additional Critical Editions of Latin Texts

Scripture

Additional Editions of Scripture

Other Sources

Index of names

Index of subjects.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Nov 2023).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-003-69382-2

1-04-079496-3

90-485-6354-2

90-485-5629-5

9781003693826

OCLC:

1373602405