Antikeimenos [8]
It is now worth recalling the important role played by katechon in Christian politics, where in the Middle Ages - and partly during the longer period of preservation of the Byzantine paradigm in Eastern Europe (up to the theory of 'Moscow is the third Rome') - it was the presence or absence of an empire that served as the reference point for eschatological time. Christian society naturally held this account on the side of the Catechon, being in solidarity with it and the order embodied in it - the Roman order. But the location of such a vantage point necessarily had to involve Antichemenos, who at any moment could emerge from a gap in the Catechon enclosure of the Christian polis. In other words, the Antichæmenos, which had not been sufficiently conceptualised, was constantly and invariably present at the heart of Christian political thought.
