Det Eviga Evangeliet : Joakim av Floris och den romantiska drömmen om en ny religion

Summary, in English

The Eternal Evangel. The Joachimite heritage in Romantic religion: Taking its departure in the 19th-century idea of a “religion of humanity”, this article explores the ideological roots of this powerful vision of a new, higher religion including all human beings regardless of nationality or confession. The vision is highlighted by a close reading of Novalis’ famous text “Die Christenheit oder Europa” and the final lecture of the late Schelling’s philosophy of revelation. Through the analysis of these texts, a number of metaphors are uncovered, which, in the next section of the article, are traced back to the trinitarian theology of history of the 12th-century Calabrian abbot Joachim of Fiore. However, the aim of the article is not only to illustrate the continuity of the Joachimite legacy and the Romantic notion of a religion of humanity. Thus, in the last section it also problematizes the central metaphors underpinning this notion by relating them to their wider Wirkungsgeschichte in the European politico-philosophical context.

• Author: Jayne Svenungsson
• Publishing year: 2011
• Language: Swedish
• Pages: 169-182
• Publication/Series: Lychnos: årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria
• Volume: 2011
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• Links: https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/20500/18419
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet
• Topic: Religious Studies
• Keywords: Joachim av Floris; Novalis; Schelling; kristendom; Europa; progression; universalism; förandligande; historiefilosofi; ande; eviga evangeliet
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0076-1648