Note 48 — Chapter III · - ‘THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL’
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See Renan, op. cit., p. 248; Lea, vol. iii, pp. 22-3 and notes; F. H. Reusch, Index der verbotenen Bücher (Bonn, 1883). Bücherverbote im Mittelalter, pp. 18-21; Chronicle of Salimbene in Monumenta Historica ad provincias Parmensem et Placentiam pertinentia (Parma, 1857), pp. 235-6. See Directorium, part ii, question ix, pp. 269-72, on the heresies of John of Parma. ‘It is ... the substitution of the idea of the Everlasting Gospel as a written book to supersede the Gospel of Christ, for the original one of the Everlasting Gospel as an unwritten spiritual interpretation based upon that Gospel—that separates Gherardo of Borgo San Donnino and the Joachists from the authentic creed of Joachim himself.’—Franciscan Essays, p. 63. The prophecies of Joachim himself were esteemed by the Church; it was the subsequent gloss upon them that was suspect. See Döllinger, Prophecy and the Prophetic Spirit (London, 1873), pp. 121 et seq.