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 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, Dürer, 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. 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, Dürer, 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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