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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Apocalypticism"”.
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The Apocalypticism of Hesiod, Plato, & Virgil: Expanding the Boundaries for Christian Apocalyptic Intertexts
… of Greco-Roman influences upon early Christian apocalypticism, thus laying a foundation for new intertextual studies. On the other hand, this study bridges apocalypticism research towards certain Greek and Latin authors, thereby creating new pathways of investigation for classicists. To achieve …
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The Antichrist and the "trewe men": Lollard apocalypticism in late medieval and Early Modern England.
The outpouring of apocalyptic thought in the late sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries in England has been acknowledged, the sources of these ideas have not been explored sufficiently. The aim of this study is to redress that imbalance by showing the pervasiveness of fear aroused by the Antichrist …
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The burden and the beast: An oracle of apocalyptic reform in early sixteenth-century Salzburg
This study investigates the relationship between apocalypticism, criticism of the church and ecclesiastical reform at the beginning of the sixteenth century. It focuses on Berthold Purstinger (1465-1543), bishop of Chiemsee (reg. 1508-1526), and forms a commentary on his apocalyptic treatise Onus …
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Valleys of the Shadow of Death: The Apocalypses of the Inferno and One Hundred Years of Solitude
… those seen in Revelation. Inferno and Solitude's apocalypticism reveals their meaning and explains their cultural effect.
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Writing the Apocalypse: Literary Representations of Eschatology at the End of the Middle Ages
… explores the utopian and dystopian tones of apocalypticism in medieval secular literature and how literary authors treated the end of time. Beginning with two different representational models of medieval apocalyptic, notably those of St Augustine of Hippo and of Joachim of Fiore, this study …
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Husbands scorned and fathers ignored : a social analysis of the Acts of Thomas
… favor of its internal community. Their celibate apocalypticism lead to the persecution of the group, not by the imperial government, but by local paterfamiliarum whose families had been partially converted to this brand of celibate Christianity. The group responded to this threat by a variety of …
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An Investigation of Dispensational Premillennialism: an Analysis and Evaluation of the Eschatology of John F. Walvoord
… of theearly church that seem to come from Jewish apocalypticism appear in dispensational premillennialism. Special attention is given to Lacunza's millenarian ideas that show a close parallel with most of the tenets of modern Dispensationalism.</p> <p>Chapter 4 describes the premillennial …
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Vox populi: Visual rhetoric methodology for medieval Apocalyptic Art
Apocalypticism has been a major element in faiths and religions worldwide. The influence of the Christian Apocalypse in Western philosophy, spirituality, religion, imagery, iconography, and social thought is present in almost every form of visual rhetoric we know: photography, art, paintings, …
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Who is the "God of this age" in 2 Corinthians 4:4?
… the extent to which Paul was dependent on Jewish apocalypticism when he formulated the epithet "the God of this age"
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English Catholic Eschatology, 1558 - 1603.
… discourse. This was dangerous as eschatology and apocalypticism was a language of political action. An eschatological understanding of contemporary events encouraged conspiracy. The divine plan required human agents. Catholic prophecy and conspiracy show that eschatology did not just affect how …
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Seventh-day Adventism and Apocalyptic Political Dissent, 1898-1919
… Seventh-day Adventism. Invoking biblical apocalypticism to foreground their anti-imperialism, Adventists developed a theological framework to interpret the ethics of US foreign policy. They rendered the book of Revelation’s symbol of a “lamblike” beast that behaves like a “dragon” as a …
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Love and Drede: Religious Fear in Middle English
Several earlier generations of historians described the later Middle Ages as an ‘age of fear’. This account was especially applied to accounts of the presumed mentality of the later medieval layperson, seen as at the mercy of the currents of plague, violence and dramatic social, economic and …