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May 29, 2023
Arthurus alter Christus: Sallie Bridges, Part II
It is chiefly “Avilion” that has brought Bridges to the attention of researchers today....
May 28, 2023
Arthurus alter Christus: Sallie Bridges, Part I
A kind of nationalized Christian millennialism may have been the most common...
May 20, 2023
Millennialist Beliefs and the American Civil War
Before we can turn to the Civil War-era writers mentioned in the last...
May 06, 2023
Arthurus alter Christus: Tennyson and the Victorians
In “To the Queen,” the verse epilogue to his great Arthurian work, Idylls of...
March 2023
March 13, 2023
Athurus alter Christus: King Arthur as Last World Emperor in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur
It is remarkable, given the number of centuries that Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur reigned...
March 10, 2023
Arthurus alter Christus: King Arthur as the Last World Emperor in Geoffrey of Monmouth
If one were to compile a list of texts that have defined the shape and...
March 04, 2023
Arthurus alter Christus: King Arthur as Last World Emperor in Celtic Folklore
The Arthur myth has always had a complicated relationship with the Christian faith. On one...
January 2023
January 28, 2023
The Last World Emperor in European History
The Tiburtine Sibyl is one of the Sibylline Oracles, prophetic texts from the first few...
January 27, 2023
The Last Emperor in Pseudo-Methodius: An Analysis
We ended last entry with a brief consideration of the remarkable anti-monarchist message that...
January 26, 2023
The Last Emperor in Pseudo-Methodius: The Narrative
The Book of Revelation, also simply called the Apocalypse, is one of the most...
January 25, 2023
The Last World Emperor: Christianity’s Other Messiah
One of the most infuriating things for any medieval scholar is the continued public perception...
January 17, 2023
Jesus of Nazareth: Prophet, Priest, or King?
Christianity considers Jesus of Nazareth to be the Davidic messiah whose coming is promised...
December 2022
December 26, 2022
Christianity: A Radically Messianic Faith
It should now be quite apparent that, from Zoroastrianism down through the rigid...
December 20, 2022
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Two-Messiah Theory
No doubt much of the fascination that surrounds the religious group that produced the...
December 18, 2022
The Second Moses and the Return of Elijah
It is no secret that Judea at the time of Christ was a hotbed...
November 2022
November 23, 2022
The Return of David
By now, we have an understanding of the basic contours of the messiah idea...
November 07, 2022
Messianism Spiritualized: The Book of Jeremiah
We find Isaiah’s template repeated throughout the Jewish scriptures. Jeremiah may be one of the...
October 2022
October 23, 2022
Early Messianism in the Book of Isaiah
Now that we have located the possible origin of the messianic idea in Zoroastrianism, it...
October 10, 2022
Zoroastrianism Coda: The Empire of Time
I had thought, after the previous entry, to leave Zoroastrianism behind, but then I came...
October 02, 2022
Zoroastrianism: The First Messianic Faith
To properly understand Christianity as an eschatological faith, it behooves us to understand the deep...
September 2022
September 24, 2022
The Eschatological Basis of Christianity
All of the world’s major religions are, to an extent, eschatological. Because one of the...
September 17, 2022
“An Emperor Among Us?”: Emperor Norton’s Religious Utopianism
Well, this is not how I expected to start off the first “real” entry in...
September 13, 2022
A Source of Hope in Apocalyptic Times
The end of the world, it seems, is always upon us. Constantly, we are warned...
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