Sampath Pāṇini ® on Nostr: “It has also been speculated by Georges Declercq that Dionysius' desire to replace ...

“It has also been speculated by Georges Declercq that Dionysius' desire to replace Diocletian years with a calendar based on the incarnation of Christ was intended to prevent people from believing the imminent end of the world. At the time, it was believed by some that the resurrection of the dead and end of the world would occur 500 years after the birth of Jesus.”

Eschatologists gonna #ImmanentizeTheEschaton.