eucharist
Mircea Eliade and Primordial Eucharist
Catholic and Orthodox Christians participate in Mircea Eliade's "eternal return" on the occasion of every eucharistic celebration.
Mircea Eliade
apocalypse
On the Uses and Abuses of "Realized Eschatology"
Insofar as we persist in using the word eschatology, it cannot by definition, for us here and now, ever be fully "realized."
time
Profane Duration and Sacred Time
Religious man lives in two kinds of time, of which the more important, sacred time, appears under the paradoxical aspect of a circular time – a sort of eternal mythical present periodically reintegrated by means of rites.