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At 12:19 PM 10/6/99 -0400, Michael F. Hynes wrote: >All we can do is have faith that at the >level of the transcendent our experiences do indeed have meaning. The locus >classicus of all this is R.A. Markus, Saeculum: History and Society in the >Theology of St. Augustine (Cambridge, 1970). Augustine's views won out in >large measure because of the power and cogency of his argument. And perhaps in small measure because historicist apocalypticism no longer served an institutionalized church that enjoyed increasing social dominance? Tom Long %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%