TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beltramini,Enrico
TI  - Desecularizing the Christian Past: Beyond R.A. Markus and the Religious-Secular Divide 
SN  - 9789048556298
AV  - BR138 .B45 2023
U1  - 270.072 23
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Church history
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Antiquity
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - History
KW  - Medieval Studies
KW  - Religion and Theology
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Religious History, Historical Methodology, Middle Ages, Gregory the Great, Augustine of Hippo
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. Sacramental Ontology --; 2. Ontological Turn --; 3. History and Theology --; 4. Saeculum --; 5. Ancient and Modern Christianity --; 6. Augustinianisms --; 7. Saeculum Retold --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index of names --; Index of subjects; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048556298?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048556298
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048556298/original
ER  -