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"By an Immediate Revelation" - Studies in Apocalypticism, its Origins and Effects (Hardcover)
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"By an Immediate Revelation" - Studies in Apocalypticism, its Origins and Effects (Hardcover)
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 473
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This volume of essays by Christopher Rowland, written during the
last forty years, concerns the nature of apocalypticism and its
reception history. His reading of apocalyptic texts is thereby
colored not by immersion into the study of "apocalyptic" in
biblical scholarship, but by acquaintance with early Jewish
mysticism. One of the Oxford English Dictionary's definitions of
"mystic" is one which helps to understand not only the mystical but
also apocalyptic: a mystic is "one who believes in the possibility
of the spiritual apprehension of truths that are inaccessible to
the understanding." This definition and the importance of the
opening word of Revelation as an apocalypse - in other words, a
writing whose form is revelatory -, are explored in these essays.
As this understanding of apocalypticism contrasts with the
eschatological character predominant in modern biblical
scholarship, a theme of this collection therefore is that the
eschatological elements in apocalyptic texts are not the
determining feature of what constitutes "apocalyptic," which must
especially attend to the revelatory form of apocalyptic texts such
as Revelation. The pervasiveness of apocalyptic and mystical
elements in the New Testament is a consistent thread throughout the
volume, which also includes consideration of the apocalyptic and
eschatological thought of Joachim of Fiore and his disciples, the
early modern appeal to visions and revelation, and culminates in
the texts and images of William Blake (1757-1827). The collection's
concern with the history of the reception of such ideas contributes
to the vindication of Ernst Kasemann's view of apocalyptic being
the "mother of Christian theology".
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