Rethinking the Fifth Empire: António Vieira and the Clavis Prophetarum
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It is this paperâs purpose to introduce António Vieiraâs model of the Fifth Empire and to contextualize it within the biblical exegesis tendencies of his time. Vieiraâs conceptualization is of utmost importance for understanding the intellectual and religious environment of seventeenth-century Portugal: a disturbed time, during which people searched for answers in biblical prophecies to explain the reasons behind so much suffering. Vieiraâs systematization, however, was first viewed as a possible heresy by the Portuguese Inquisition and was only later, and in part, rehabilitated by Antonio Casnedi. The Clavis prophetarum is also an expression of an eschatological hope common to the Iberian world, although it focuses mostly on Portugal.
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Rethinking the Fifth Empire: António Vieira and the Clavis Prophetarum
In: e-Journal of Portuguese HistorySearch for other papers by Maria Ana T. Valdez in
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It is this paperâs purpose to introduce António Vieiraâs model of the Fifth Empire and to contextualize it within the biblical exegesis tendencies of his time. Vieiraâs conceptualization is of utmost importance for understanding the intellectual and religious environment of seventeenth-century Portugal: a disturbed time, during which people searched for answers in biblical prophecies to explain the reasons behind so much suffering. Vieiraâs systematization, however, was first viewed as a possible heresy by the Portuguese Inquisition and was only later, and in part, rehabilitated by Antonio Casnedi. The Clavis prophetarum is also an expression of an eschatological hope common to the Iberian world, although it focuses mostly on Portugal.
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| PDF Views & Downloads | 44 | 30 | 2 |
