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

Farrer, Austin Marsden

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0887062717 ISBN 13: 9780887062711

Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr, 1986

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Austin Farrer, D.D. (1904–1968), was Fellow and Chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford (1935–1960) and Warden of Keble College, Oxford (1960–1968). Among his books are Finite and Infinite, St. Matthew and St. Mark, and The Freedom of the Will.

Edition details

• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887062717
• ISBN 13: 9780887062711
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 347