Tradition and Apocalypse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tradition and Apocalypse write by David Bentley Hart. This book was released on 2022-02-08. Tradition and Apocalypse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the two thousand years that have elapsed since the time of Christ, Christians have been as much divided by their faith as united, as much at odds as in communion. And the contents of Christian confession have developed with astonishing energy. How can believers claim a faith that has been passed down through the ages while recognizing the real historical contingencies that have shaped both their doctrines and their divisions? In this carefully argued essay, David Bentley Hart critiques the concept of "tradition" that has become dominant in Christian thought as fundamentally incoherent. He puts forth a convincing new explanation of Christian tradition, one that is obedient to the nature of Christianity not only as a "revealed" creed embodied in historical events but as the "apocalyptic" revelation of a history that is largely identical with the eternal truth it supposedly discloses. Hart shows that Christian tradition is sustained not simply by its preservation of the past, but more essentially by its anticipation of the future. He offers a compelling portrayal of a living tradition held together by apocalyptic expectation--the promised transformation of all things in God.
The Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of New Testament Thought
The Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of New Testament Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of New Testament Thought write by Benjamin E. Reynolds. This book was released on 2017-04-01. The Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of New Testament Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The contemporary study of Jewish apocalypticism today recognizes the wealth and diversity of ancient traditions concerned with the “unveiling” of heavenly matters‒‒understood to involve revealed wisdom, the revealed resolution of time, and revealed cosmology‒‒in marked contrast to an earlier focus on eschatology as such. The shift in focus has had a more direct impact on the study of ancient “pseudepigraphic” literature, however, than in New Testament studies, where the narrower focus on eschatological expectation remains dominant. In this Companion, an international team of scholars draws out the implications of the newest scholarship for the variety of New Testament writings. Each entry presses the boundaries of current discussion regarding the nature of apocalypticism in application to a particular New Testament author. The cumulative effect is to reveal, as never before, early Christianity, its Christology, cosmology, and eschatology, as expressions of tendencies in Second Temple Judaism.
Revelation
Revelation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revelation write by . This book was released on 1999-01-01. Revelation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Visions of the End
Visions of the End - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Visions of the End write by Bernard McGinn. This book was released on 1998. Visions of the End available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From millenarists to Antichrist hunters, from the Sibyls to the Hussites, Visions of the End is a monumental compendium spanning the literature of the Christian apocalyptic tradition from the period A.D. 400 to 1500, masterfully selected and complete with a comprehensive introduction and new preface.
The Byzantine Apocalyptic Tradition
The Byzantine Apocalyptic Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Byzantine Apocalyptic Tradition write by Paul J. Alexander. This book was released on 2023-11-10. The Byzantine Apocalyptic Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout Christian history, apocalyptic visions of the approaching end of time have provided a persistent and enigmatic theme for history and prophecy. Apocalyptic literature played a particularly important role in the medieval world, where legends of the Antichrist, Gog and Magog, and the Last Roman Emperor were widely circulated. Although scholars have long recognized that a body of Byzantine prophetic literature served as the source for these ideas, the Byzantine textual tradition, its sources, and the way in which it was transmitted to the West have neve been thoroughly understood. For more than fifteen years prior to his death in 1977, Paul J. Alexander devoted his energies to the clarification of the Byzantine apocalyptic tradition. These studies, left uncompleted at his death, trace the development of a textual tradition that passed from Syriac through Greek to Slavonic and Latin literature. Using a combination of philological and historical detection, the author establishes the time, place, and circumstances of composition for each of the major surviving texts, identifying lost works known only through descriptions. In showing how Byzantine prophecy served as a bridge between ancient eschatological works and the medieval West, Alexander demonstrates that apocalyptic literature represents a creative source for the expression of political and religious thought in the medieval world. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.
