A Rebirth of Images: The Making of St. John's Apocalypse

A Rebirth of Images: The Making of St. John's Apocalypse
ISBN-10
0887062717
ISBN-13
9780887062711
Category
Religion
Pages
354
Language
English
Published
1986-01-01
Publisher
SUNY Press
Author
Austin Farrer

Description

In this classic study, St. John's Revelation is approached as a great and singular theological poem. Austin Farrer shows how the poem arose in an inspired mind, by what processes of divination its author explored the realm of supernatural truth, how he used the images of his Old Testament faith and gave them fresh meaning in the context of his scheme. Here the reader may follow the workings of a late first-century Christian imagination, in which the Scriptures and the stars, the liturgy of the temple and the magic of numbers, the elements of nature and the march of human history are closely interwoven.

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