Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Through a Glass Darkly: Time, the End, and the Essence of Apocalyptica
- 2 Apocalypticism as a Worldview in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
- 3 Introduction to the Book of Revelation
- 4 The Gnostic Apocalypses
- 5 Exegeting the Apocalypse with the Donatist Communion
- 6 Tests of Faith, Rebirth out of Corruption, or Endless Cycles of Regeneration: Experiments in the Restoration of the Late Roman Empire
- 7 Latin Reception of the Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages
- 8 Exegesis of the Apocalypse in the Tenth Century
- 9 The End of the World at the Ends of the Earth: Apocalyptic Thought in Medieval Ireland
- 10 Byzantine Apocalyptic Literature
- 11 Joachim of Fiore and the Apocalyptic Revival of the Twelfth Century
- 12 Apocalyptic Sensibility in Renaissance Europe
- 13 “Pride & Vanity of the Imagination, That Disdains to Follow This World’s Fashion”: Apocalypticism in the Age of Reason
- 14 The Formation of Antichrist in Medieval Western Christian Thought
- 15 From Dabiq to Jerusalem: Trajectories of Contemporary Salafi-jihadi Apocalypticism
- 16 American Evangelicals and the Apocalypse
- 17 Apocalypticism in the Contemporary World
- Appendix: Early Medieval Commentaries on the Apocalypse
- Index
- Series page
- References
14 - The Formation of Antichrist in Medieval Western Christian Thought
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Through a Glass Darkly: Time, the End, and the Essence of Apocalyptica
- 2 Apocalypticism as a Worldview in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
- 3 Introduction to the Book of Revelation
- 4 The Gnostic Apocalypses
- 5 Exegeting the Apocalypse with the Donatist Communion
- 6 Tests of Faith, Rebirth out of Corruption, or Endless Cycles of Regeneration: Experiments in the Restoration of the Late Roman Empire
- 7 Latin Reception of the Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages
- 8 Exegesis of the Apocalypse in the Tenth Century
- 9 The End of the World at the Ends of the Earth: Apocalyptic Thought in Medieval Ireland
- 10 Byzantine Apocalyptic Literature
- 11 Joachim of Fiore and the Apocalyptic Revival of the Twelfth Century
- 12 Apocalyptic Sensibility in Renaissance Europe
- 13 “Pride & Vanity of the Imagination, That Disdains to Follow This World’s Fashion”: Apocalypticism in the Age of Reason
- 14 The Formation of Antichrist in Medieval Western Christian Thought
- 15 From Dabiq to Jerusalem: Trajectories of Contemporary Salafi-jihadi Apocalypticism
- 16 American Evangelicals and the Apocalypse
- 17 Apocalypticism in the Contemporary World
- Appendix: Early Medieval Commentaries on the Apocalypse
- Index
- Series page
- References
Summary
The figure of Antichrist does not appear as such in Christian Scripture; it is instead constituted by the interactions of several exegetical and theological strands in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. This chapter studies the contours of that developing tradition, casting forward even into the present invocations of Antichrist in contemporary thinkers such as René Girard and Giorgio Agamben.
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Selected Further Reading
Agamben, Giorgio. The Mystery of Evil: Benedict XVI and the End of Days. Translated by Kotsko, Adam. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017.Google Scholar
Bull, Malcolm, ed. Apocalypse Theory and the Ends of the World. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.Google Scholar
Burr, David. The Spiritual Franciscans: From Protest to Persecution in the Century after Saint Francis. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Cayley, David. The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich as Told to David Cayley. Toronto: House of Anansi, 2005.Google Scholar
Girard, René. Battling to the End: Conversations with Benoît Chantre. Translated by Mary, Baker. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2010.Google Scholar
Hughes, Kevin L. Constructing Antichrist: Paul, Biblical Commentary, and the Development of Doctrine in the Early Middle Ages. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Hughes, Kevin L. “The Providential Failure of Christianity: René Girard, Ivan Illich, and the Renewal of Apocalyptic Theology.” Pro Ecclesia 28, no. 4 (2019), 432–45.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Landes, Richard, Van Meter, David, and Gow, Andrew, eds. The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectation and Social Change, 950–1050. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McGinn, Bernard. Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil. New York: HarperSanFrancsisco, 1994.Google Scholar
McGinn, Bernard. Apocalyptic Spirituality. Classics of Western Spirituality. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 1979.Google Scholar
McGinn, Bernard. The Calabrian Abbot: Joachim of Fiore in the History of Western Christian Thought. New York: Macmillan, 1985.Google Scholar
Tondelli, Leone, Reeves, Marjorie, and Hirsch-Reich, Beatrice, eds. Il libro delle figure dell’abate Gioachino da Fiore, 2 vols. Turin: Società Editrice Internazionale, 1953.Google Scholar
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