Apocalypticism in the Western tradition, Bernard McGinn

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Apocalypticism in the Western tradition, Bernard McGinn

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Bernard McGinn

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• Apocalypticism in the Western tradition

Publication

• Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain | Brookfield, Vt., Variorum, ©1994

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Contents

Background and historiography. Early apocalypticism: the ongoing debate. -- Apocalypticism in the middle ages. -- Themes of medieval apocalypticism. Symbols of the apocalypse in medieval culture. -- Teste David cum Sibylla: the significance of the Sibylline tradition in the middle ages. -- Angel pope and papal antichrist. -- Pastor angelicus: apocalyptic myth and political hope in the fourteenth century. -- Apocalyptic traditions and spiritual identity in thirteenth-century religious life. -- The significance of Bonaventure's theology of history. -- Joachim of Fiore. The abbot and the doctors: scholastic reactions to the radical eschatology of Joachim of Fiore. -- Joachim of Fiore's Tertius Status: some theological appraisals. -- Alter Moyses: the role of Bernard of Clairvaux in the thought of Joachim of Fiore. -- Influence and importance in evaluating Joachim of Fiore

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23 cm.

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1 volume (various pagings)

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9780860783961

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93035662

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illustrations

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99188322360001161

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• (OCoLC)28929574
• (OCoLC)ocm28929574