Roman Tradition
Western Christianity never adopted an Anno Mundi epoch system, relying instead on the Anno Domini (AD) epoch system, though AM dating continued to be important in theology since such dating was of direct relevance to the calculation of the Last Judgment; Bede, for instance, in De Temporum Ratione, recalculates the birth of Jesus at 3952 AM, "thus postponing the date of the apocalypse over 1200 years to 2048 AD."
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