Sobre el milenarismo de Joaquín de Fiore: Una lectura retrospectiva

Abstract

This article analyses the work by Joachim de Fiore, claiming that there is a gap between the historical Joachim and the real Joachinism, which has turned him into an imaginary figure, in whom most of the humanity's ambitions have been reflected for years. The author argues that de Fiore might have given good reasons for this historical process of recreation. The hypothesis here put forward, is that a dissociation has occurred between the true doctrine of the Abbot de Fiore and its reception form a radical sector of the Franciscan fraternity (the spirituals or 'fraticeleos'). His mithification has given rise to Joachinism. However, there are no grounds for the claims that attribute pre-mileniarism to him, which states that Christ will come back to reign for a thousand years before the resurrection of the dead. In fact, it is likely that Joachim's thesis on the third stage, with no signs nor figures, may have accepted a post-milleniarist interpretation; i.e. the idea of a millennium of progressive maturation of the evangelical gifts and of a greater joy, more and more perfect and irreversible, after which the Final Things might come