Metastazy Joachima, czyli nowoczesność jako samospełniająca się przepowiednia
Joachim’s Metastases, or Modernity as Self-fulfilling Prophecy

Summary/Abstract: The author of this text intends to present the birth of modernity out of the spirit of prophecy, more concretely: the prophecy of Joachim of Fiore, whose Evangelium Aeternum, recognised by the Catholic Church as heresy, opened up totally new thinking about the future as “the Age of the Holy Spirit”. She first, therefore, considers the essence of Joachim’s prophecy and subsequently focuses on the so-called secularisation debate initiated by Karl Löwith and his historiosophic interpretation of Joachim. The article presents a discussion held by Karl Barth, Karl Löwith, Gershom Scholem, Jacob Taubes and Erich Voegelin, and ends with the conception of political mysticism conceived by Gustav Landauer, whose reflection firmly supports the Joachimite idea of inner-world salvation. The outcome of the discussion demonstrates that modernity is an epoch that exists only as long as we believe in it – nova era – has no justification apart from an attempt at implementing the prophecy contained in Evangelium Aeternum.

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