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Joachim of Fiore (c. 1132–1202) and Joachimism

Calabrian Cistercian abbot (c. 1132–1202), author of the doctrine of the three ages of the Father, the Son and the Spirit. Lateran IV (1215) condemned only his Trinitarian pamphlet against Peter Lombard, sparing his monastery of Fiore; the theses of radical Joachimism were condemned later, at Anagni and under John XXII.

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