Desecularizing the Christian Past

Beyond R.A. Markus and the Religious-Secular Divide
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-94-6372-188-2
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beltramini, Enrico

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

SACRAMENTAL ONTOLOGY

ONTOLOGICAL TURN

HISTORY AND THEOLOGY

SAECULUM

ANCIENT AND MODERN CHRISTIANITY

AUGUSTINIANISMS

SAECULUM RETOLD

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Über Autor(innen)

Beltramini, Enrico
Enrico Beltramini specializes in Christian theology and history, focusing particularly on historical and political theology as well as history and historiography of religion. He is the author of two monographs and numerous book chapters, and he has contributed over 60 peer-reviewed articles to academic journals. He is on faculty at Notre Dame de Namur University, California. Beltramini has been trained as a theologian, historian, and social theorist, and he has earned doctoral degrees in theology, history, and business.