“...the wisdom of God has willed an order of things that involves a temporal succession. Accordingly in the Church there first arose men who were powerful in working wonders and signs. In the “central time” of the Church, men of great learning followed. In the final age, God has sent men who freely chose to be beggars and to be poor in earthly possessions. These men have been sent against that spirit of covetousness which was to achieve its greatest force at the end of the world. Furthermore, poverty arose at the very beginning of the Church (in the community of Jerusalem); it now blossoms again at the end of the Church. So Jerome’s statement is shown to be true: “Omega revolvit ad alpha.” In the end, the circle closes itself on its beginning...it should be adequately clear that we cannot equate the eschatological notions of Joachim with the eschatological attitude of Christianity itself. Consequently, the rejection of Joachim’s view may not at all involve the rejection of the eschatological attitude of Christianity. Furthermore, we have already seen that within the Catholic Church we find not only Aquinas’ answer to Joachim, but Bonaventure’s answer as well. And Bonaventure’s answer takes up the basic themes of Joachim and relates them to the thought of the Church without any loss of the living eschatological tension.” [Joseph Ratzinger, The Theology of History in St. Bonaventure, trans. Zachary Hayes (Chicago, IL: Franciscan Herald Press, 1989), 113-115.]
-It’s not “Joe-a-Kim”, it’s, “Wah-Keem”-okay?
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It wouldn't be“Wah-Keem” either, since he was from Calabria and his actual name was Gioacchino.
@@CsnvLsRnst …when in Calabria…
What a heretic.
lol she's just reading wikipedia
“...the wisdom of God has willed an order of things that involves a temporal succession. Accordingly in the Church there first arose men who were powerful in working wonders and signs. In the “central time” of the Church, men of great learning followed. In the final age, God has sent men who freely chose to be beggars and to be poor in earthly possessions. These men have been sent against that spirit of covetousness which was to achieve its greatest force at the end of the world. Furthermore, poverty arose at the very beginning of the Church (in the community of Jerusalem); it now blossoms again at the end of the Church. So Jerome’s statement is shown to be true: “Omega revolvit ad alpha.” In the end, the circle closes itself on its beginning...it should be adequately clear that we cannot equate the eschatological notions of Joachim with the eschatological attitude of Christianity itself. Consequently, the rejection of Joachim’s view may not at all involve the rejection of the eschatological attitude of Christianity. Furthermore, we have already seen that within the Catholic Church we find not only Aquinas’ answer to Joachim, but Bonaventure’s answer as well.
And Bonaventure’s answer takes up the basic themes of Joachim and relates them to the thought of the Church without any loss of the living eschatological tension.” [Joseph Ratzinger, The Theology of History in St. Bonaventure, trans. Zachary Hayes (Chicago, IL: Franciscan Herald Press, 1989), 113-115.]