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Constructing Antichrist - Paul, Biblical Commentary, and the Development of Doctrine in the Early Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Constructing Antichrist - Paul, Biblical Commentary, and the Development of Doctrine in the Early Middle Ages (Paperback)
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The figure of Antichrist has gripped the Christian imagination for
two thousand years. But Antichrist does not spring fully from the
pages of Scripture. Rather, he emerges over a millennium of
reflection on hints and clues scattered throughout Scripture and
Christian tradition. In particular, the image of Antichrist is tied
in a vital way to the man medieval Christians knew simply as 'the
Apostle'--St. Paul. Constructing Antichrist engages readers with
the question: what does Paul have to do with the Antichrist?
Integrating new scholarship in apocalypticism and the history of
exegesis, this book is the first longitudinal study of the role of
Paul in apocalyptic thought. Readers will gain new appreciation for
the theological weight of medieval exegesis generally and for the
persistence of apocalypticism in the medieval Christian imagination
as it dared to envision the Adversary. The author argues that the
western doctrines of Antichrist and the Last Days are entwined with
the development of medieval New Testament exegesis. The Second
Letter to the Thessalonians--a brief and much-debated apocalyptic
text in the New Testament--is the most important locus for
doctrinal speculation about Antichrist and the coming End. The
author carefully examines commentaries on 2 Thessalonians from the
fourth to the twelfth centuries and finds that they provide the
'architecture' for the developing doctrine of Antichrist as it is
portrayed in later medieval art and literature. By the twelfth
century, this tradition of reflection distills from the various
early interpretations a classic, synthetic understanding of
Antichrist and the End that forms an authoritative consensus for
centuries.
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