Historical interpretations of the "fifth empire" the dynamics of periodization from Daniel to António Vieira, S.J. /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Travassos Valdez, Maria Ana
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Series:Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 149.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • The biblical sources. The four empires
  • The seventy weeks
  • The millennium
  • The exegetical tradition. Flavius Josephus
  • Hippolytus and the 6000-year chronology
  • St. Jerome's commentary on Daniel
  • St. Augustine's two cities
  • Joachim of Fiore : from the Status to the "last emperor"
  • António Vieira, S.J., and the Clavis prophetarum. Eschatology in António Vieira's previous works
  • Clavis prophetarum or De regno Christi in terris consummato
  • The fifth empire
  • Universal evangelization, toleration, and ecumenism?.