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The Third Age: Reflections on Our Hidden Material Core

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This paper deals with the concept of three eras, as brought to us firstly in the Babylonian Talmud , and later reshaped and reformulated by Christian theologians Joachim of Fiore,… Click to show full abstract

This paper deals with the concept of three eras, as brought to us firstly in the Babylonian Talmud , and later reshaped and reformulated by Christian theologians Joachim of Fiore, Amalric of Bène, and finally by Luce Irigaray. In the first part, we start with the idea of the three eras. This is followed by a critical approach to Sloterdijk’s You must change your life in which religion is substituted by the anthropotechnics. We argue that even in these secular times, the salvation history still remains unfulfilled and that our world is in need of a new, post-Christian materially spiritual narrative. The second part is entirely dedicated to Amalricians and their teachings. Also by tackling strong Islamic influences, we try to find a new opening towards the post-Christian era beyond the mentioned anthropotechnics/atheism divide. In the third part, the Age of the Spirit is approached and defined as a future messianic-utopian era in which a hidden and forgotten inner spiritual core will be revealed to us and in which humanity will give itself a gift of becoming spiritually transformed and divinized.

Keywords: age; third age; age reflections; hidden material; reflections hidden; core

Journal Title: Sophia
Year Published: 2020

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