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BEYOND REFORMATION?

An Essay on William Langland’s Piers Plowman and the End of

Constantinian Christianity

DAVID AERS

University of Notre Dame Press

Notre Dame, Indiana

Notre Dame, Indiana 46556

www.undpress.nd.edu

E-ISBN 978-0-268-07484-5

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This book is dedicated to three teachers and friends:

Elizabeth Salter

Derek Pearsall

Stanley Hauerwas

Mirabile ergo mysterium Christi sedentis ad dexteram Dei: occultum est ut crederetur, subtractum est ut

speraretur.

(This is a wonderful thing about the mystery of Christ’s enthronement at God’s right hand: his presence is

hidden that he may be believed in and withdrawn that he may be hoped for.)

—St. Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos, 109.8

et certe videmus nunc per speculum in aenigmate, nondum facie ad faciem. et ideo, quamdiu peregrinor

abs te, mihi sum praesentior quam tibi at tamen te novi nullo modo posse violari; ego vero quibus

temptationibus resistere valem quibusve non valeam, nescio.

(Without question, “we see now through a mirror in an enigma,” not yet “face to face” [1 Cor. 13:12]. For

this cause, as long as I am a traveller absent from you [2 Cor. 5:6], I am more present to myself than to

you. Yet I know that you cannot be in any way subjected to violence, whereas I do not know which

temptations I can resist and which I cannot.)

—St. Augustine, Confessions, X.5.7