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June 2024

June 22, 2024

The Third Age Dawns in China: Joachimism and Chinese Sects

Anyone who knows the Catholic Church would scoff at the idea of it being...

June 20, 2024

The Third Age Dawns in China: Christianity and Chinese Sects

The return of the Catholic Church to China began with the Jesuits. In the last...

June 10, 2024

The Third Age Dawns in China: The Story Thus Far

The Chinese religious scene is nothing if not adaptable. This is nowhere truer than in...

May 2024

May 16, 2024

The Third Age Dawns in China: The Qing Dynasty and After

The greatest indicator of the Longhua jing’s success was the new group consciousness that...

May 15, 2024

The Third Age Dawns in China: The Longhua Jing

As the Ming era wound down, the Three Ages sects continued to evolve. There...

April 2024

April 30, 2024

The Third Age Dawns in China: Zhaijiao and Hongyang

It did not take long for the synthesis of Three-Ages, Luoist, and divine Mother beliefs...

March 2024

March 16, 2024

The Third Age Dawns in China: The Jiulian Baojuan

The transformative effect of the recent developments in sectarianism—Patriarch Luo’s teachings and the adoption...

February 2024

February 25, 2024

The Third Age Dawns in China: The Huangji Jieguo Baojuan

The Ming period was the golden age of sectarian thought in imperial China. Religious...

January 2024

January 19, 2024

The Originality of Joachim of Fiore

It has often been noted that great ideas have the odd tendency of occurring independently...

November 2023

November 25, 2023

La Papessa: The Female Pope and the Feminine Face of God

“A prophet foretells the future,” as Marjorie Reeves says. “He can also create it” (135)....

November 12, 2023

Joachim and the Antichrist

Among Joachim of Fiore’s many remarkable ideas, his unique understanding of the Antichrist has,...

September 2023

September 12, 2023

Joachim of Fiore: The Man Who Invented the Future

Everything you believe about the world can be traced back to an apocalyptic...

June 2023

June 27, 2023

Arthurus alter Christus: Concluding Thoughts

Among the various Arthurian texts in my possession is a 1987 edition of Geoffrey Ashe’s...

January 2023

January 28, 2023

The Last World Emperor in European History

The Tiburtine Sibyl is one of the Sibylline Oracles, prophetic texts from the first few...

January 27, 2023

The Last Emperor in Pseudo-Methodius: An Analysis

We ended last entry with a brief consideration of the remarkable anti-monarchist message that...

January 26, 2023

The Last Emperor in Pseudo-Methodius: The Narrative

The Book of Revelation, also simply called the Apocalypse, is one of the most...

January 25, 2023

The Last World Emperor: Christianity’s Other Messiah

One of the most infuriating things for any medieval scholar is the continued public perception...

January 17, 2023

Jesus of Nazareth: Prophet, Priest, or King?

Christianity considers Jesus of Nazareth to be the Davidic messiah whose coming is promised...

December 2022

December 26, 2022

Christianity: A Radically Messianic Faith

It should now be quite apparent that, from Zoroastrianism down through the rigid...

November 2022

November 23, 2022

The Return of David

By now, we have an understanding of the basic contours of the messiah idea...

November 07, 2022

Messianism Spiritualized: The Book of Jeremiah

We find Isaiah’s template repeated throughout the Jewish scriptures. Jeremiah may be one of the...

October 2022

October 02, 2022

Zoroastrianism: The First Messianic Faith

To properly understand Christianity as an eschatological faith, it behooves us to understand the deep...

September 2022

September 24, 2022

The Eschatological Basis of Christianity

All of the world’s major religions are, to an extent, eschatological. Because one of the...

September 17, 2022

“An Emperor Among Us?”: Emperor Norton’s Religious Utopianism

Well, this is not how I expected to start off the first “real” entry in...