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Apocalyptic spirituality: approaching the third millennium.(includes related article on apocalypticism)
Not all Christians have put much faith in the attitude of living in the shadow of the Second Coming enjoined in these words. Pope Boniface VIII, beleaguered by the attacks on his papacy by the Spiritual Franciscans in the name of an imminent end of the age of the carnal church, once testily exclaimed: "Why are these fools awaiting the end of the world?" Some great thinkers, like Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, while never denying that Christ would one day return to judge heaven and earth, were strongly opposed to attempts to predict the timing of the event and suspicious of making the expectation of his return the center of Christian living.
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