> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Richard
> Landes
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 10:55 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: history and apocalyptic prophecy - was Book of Revelation
> topics
> Arquillere wrote a book called "augustinisme politique" about people who
> misread augustine to argue that the church, or the xn empire
> *was* the city of
> god. marrou and mommsen both wrote pieces on orosius'
> misunderstandings which
> one might call augustinisme historiographique, and i've argued that in the
> carolingian period, eschatology is dominated by a school i call
> augustinisme
> chronologique (ie they take the mnl kingdom which exists
> invisibly in the city
> of god to be coming to an end in the year 1000 or 1033, a
> position augustine
> explicitly denounced).
>
> rlandes
>
While not, strictly speaking, relevant to the issue of Augustine qua
Augustine, any discussion of Carolingian political theology/philosophy needs
to range far beyond Arquillere. I find the above far too neatly schematic to
be convincing.
Mike
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