The Joachimites, also known as Joachites, a millenarian group, arose from the Franciscans in the thirteenth century. They based their ideas on the prior works of Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135 – 1202), though rejecting the Church of their day more strongly than he had. Joachimite beliefs were condemned by the Fourth Council of the Lateran[1] and Joachimite interpretations became popular during the Protestant Reformation,[2] and even influenced some Protestant interpretations.[3] He also divided history into three ages: the ages of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.[4]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Joachimite interpretation itself prefigured later developments in Protestant and romantic hermeneutics.