Mysterium iniquitatis. Ostatnie proroctwo Sergia Quinzio
Mysterium iniquitatis. The Last Prophecy of Sergio Quinzio

Summary/Abstract: Mysterium iniquitatis is one of the most unusual and shocking works by Sergio Quinzio, Italian philosopher, theologist, and Biblical scholar. This text of a fictional encyclical letter read by the equally fictious Pope Peter II in the Roman basilica of St. John Lateran was issued in 1995 by the Adelphi publishing house. The title of the book is simultaneously that of the papal encyclical. In this apocryphon Quinzio embarked upon an exegesis of a prophetic fragment from 2 Thessalonians 2, 1–9, which – in his opinion – records the downfall of the Church of Rome. The presented article extracts the prime motifs of Quinzio’s prophecy and presents their chief theological contexts. Ultimately, the apocryphon, maintained in a catastrophic spirit, is juxtaposed with a secular prophecy by Giorgio Agamben, in which the theme of the future of the Church is perceived in slightly more optimistic hues. The conflict between the two stands provides food for thought and could be cognitively productive.

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