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Phyllis Tickle wrote a book on this about a decade ago. Her argument is that every ~500 years there is a major shakeup in the Christian world, and we’re in the
by keiferski 5y ago
Phyllis Tickle wrote a book on this about a decade ago. Her argument is that every ~500 years there is a major shakeup in the Christian world, and we’re in the midst of one right now.
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Emergence-How-Christianity-Changing/dp/080107102X https://www.amazon.com/Great-Emergence-How-Christianity-Chan...
This post explains it well:
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/are-we-in-a-500-year-religious-revolution https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/are-we-in-a-500-year-reli...
- fighterpilot 5y agoWhat's the proposed mechanism behind the 500-year periodicity? Without a plausible mechanism it's hard to take seriously.
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- tomjen3 5y agoThe Christian world is only ~2000 years old. What evidence is there for a 500 year cycle?
- keiferski 5y agoIt's covered in the post linked to in my comment.
- throwaway34241 5y agoThanks for the link. So much has changed in the last 500 years that it makes me wonder how much the (distant) past can tell us about the future, but sometimes there's interesting stuff. This topic reminds me a little bit of Ray Dalio's articles (on the rise and decline of empires) which also tries to find patterns that only become apparent over a gigantic time period. [1] [1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chapter-1-big-picture-tiny-nutshell-ray-dalio https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chapter-1-big-picture-tiny-nu...