Revelation : the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ /
This ground-breaking commentary reveals the far-reaching influence of the Apocalypse on society and culture, and the impact it has had on the Christian Church through the ages. Approaching the Apocalypse chapter by chapter, the authors consider its effects, not only on theologians from Origen and Au...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2004.
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| Series: | Blackwell Bible commentaries.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This ground-breaking commentary reveals the far-reaching influence of the Apocalypse on society and culture, and the impact it has had on the Christian Church through the ages. Approaching the Apocalypse chapter by chapter, the authors consider its effects, not only on theologians from Origen and Augustine to late twentieth-century theologians of liberation, but also on writers, artists, musicians, political figures, visionaries and others, including Dante, Hildegard of Bingen, Milton, Newton, the English Civil War radicals, Durer, Turner, Blake, Handel and Franz Schmidt. They show that, despite the enormous range of interpretations, those who use the Apocalypse tend either to see it as a kind of sophisticated code to interpret history, or as a parable about the appropriate response to God in political, ecclesiastical, or personal life. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 315 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780470773512 0470773510 1405143215 9781405143219 1280197668 9781280197666 9780631232148 0631232141 9780631232155 063123215X |