The Pope and the New Apocalypse
Title | The Pope and the New Apocalypse PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen D. Mumford |
Publisher | Center for Research |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Political Science |
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Apocalypse in Rome
Title | Apocalypse in Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald G. Musto |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 477 |
Release | 2003-05-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520928725 |
On May 20, 1347, Cola di Rienzo overthrew without violence the turbulent rule of Rome’s barons and the absentee popes. A young visionary and the best political speaker of his time, Cola promised Rome a return to its former greatness. Ronald G. Musto’s vivid biography of this charismatic leader—whose exploits have enlivened the work of poets, composers, and dramatists, as well as historians—peels away centuries of interpretation to reveal the realities of fourteenth-century Italy and to offer a comprehensive account of Cola’s rise and fall. A man of modest origins, Cola gained a reputation as a talented professional with an unparalleled knowledge of Rome’s classical remains. After earning the respect and friendship of Petrarch and the sponsorship of Pope Clement VI, Cola won the affections and loyalties of all classes of Romans. His buono stato established the reputation of Rome as the heralded New Jerusalem of the Apocalypse and quickly made the city a potent diplomatic and religious center that challenged the authority—and power—of both pope and emperor. At the height of Cola’s rule, a conspiracy of pope and barons forced him to flee the city and live for years as a fugitive until he was betrayed and taken to Avignon to stand trial as a heretic. Musto relates the dramatic story of Cola’s subsequent exoneration and return to central Italy as an agent of the new pope. But only weeks after he reestablished his government, he was slain by the Romans atop the Capitoline hill. In his exploration, Musto examines every known document pertaining to Cola’s life, including papal, private, and diplomatic correspondence rarely used by earlier historians. With his intimate knowledge of historical Rome—its streets and ruins, its churches and palaces, from the busy Tiber riverfront to the lost splendor of the Capitoline—he brings a cinematic flair to this fascinating historical narrative.
Revelation
Title | Revelation PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Canongate Books |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Bibles |
ISBN | 0857861018 |
The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Father Elijah
Title | Father Elijah PDF eBook |
Author | Michael David O'Brien |
Publisher | Ignatius Press |
Pages | 608 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0898706904 |
Father Elijah, a Holocaust survivor and convert to Catholicism from Judaism, travels through Europe and the Middle East on a papal mission to find a man who may be the Antichrist and induce him to repent.
Lord of the World
Title | Lord of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hugh Benson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 506 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | |
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Dominion of God
Title | Dominion of God PDF eBook |
Author | Brett Edward Whalen |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2010-02-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674054806 |
Brett Whalen explores the compelling belief that Christendom would spread to every corner of the earth before the end of time. During the High Middle Ages—an era of crusade, mission, and European expansion—the Western followers of Rome imagined the future conversion of Jews, Muslims, pagans, and Eastern Christians into one fold of God’s people, assembled under the authority of the Roman Church. Starting with the eleventh-century papal reform, Whalen shows how theological readings of history, prophecies, and apocalyptic scenarios enabled medieval churchmen to project the authority of Rome over the world. Looking to Byzantium, the Islamic world, and beyond, Western Christians claimed their special place in the divine plan for salvation, whether they were battling for Jerusalem or preaching to unbelievers. For those who knew how to read the signs, history pointed toward the triumph and spread of Roman Christianity. Yet this dream of Christendom raised troublesome questions about the problem of sin within the body of the faithful. By the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, radical apocalyptic thinkers numbered among the papacy’s most outspoken critics, who associated present-day ecclesiastical institutions with the evil of Antichrist—a subversive reading of the future. For such critics, the conversion of the world would happen only after the purgation of the Roman Church and a time of suffering for the true followers of God. This engaging and beautifully written book offers an important window onto Western religious views in the past that continue to haunt modern times.
A New Systeme of the Apocalypse, Or Plain and Methodical Illustrations of All the Visions in the Revelation of St. John. Written by a French Minister in the Year 1685 ... To which is Added, this Author's Defence of His Illustrations, Concerning the Non-effusion of the Vials; in Answer to Mr Iurieu. Faithfully Englished
Title | A New Systeme of the Apocalypse, Or Plain and Methodical Illustrations of All the Visions in the Revelation of St. John. Written by a French Minister in the Year 1685 ... To which is Added, this Author's Defence of His Illustrations, Concerning the Non-effusion of the Vials; in Answer to Mr Iurieu. Faithfully Englished PDF eBook |
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Pages | 72 |
Release | 1688 |
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