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Document Details : Title: Honorius Augustodunensis, Joachim of Fiore, and the Liturgical Concordance of History Author(s): WHALEN, Brett Edward Journal: Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales Volume: 89 Issue: 2 Date: 2022 Pages: 279-304 DOI: 10.2143/RTPM.89.2.3291323 Abstract : This article examines intriguing and unnoticed similarities between the historical designs of Honorius Augustodunensis and Joachim of Fiore. Specifically, it focuses on their notions of 'concordance', views of time that posited parallels between events occuring before and after the time of Christ. For both of these monastic authors, the cylical nature of the liturgical year provided a template for discerning providential patterns in the progression of linear time toward its apocalyptic finale. The Latin liturgy thereby played an important role in Honorius’s and Joachim’s theories of concordance, which, in Joachim’s case, provided the foundation for his innovative and influential apocalyptic views. These findings suggest some of the ways that liturgical notions of time contributed to the twelth century’s well-known creavity in theological speculation about the meaning of history and the apocalypse. |
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