A. C. Charity, Alan C. Charity

Events and Their Afterlife

The Dialectics of Christian Typology in the Bible and Dante

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is concerned with Christian typology and its meanings and implications for our understanding of history, of the Bible, and of Dante's Divine Comedy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780521349239
• ISBN-10: 0521349230
• Artikelnr.: 31198189

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Typology in the Old Testament: 1. The field of existence: a. myth
b. history
2. God and history: the new and the steadfast
3. Man and history: applied typology
4. God and the future: a typology without application
5. Man and the future: an existential typology
Part II. Typology in the New Testament: 6. The scope of the New Testament typology
7. Jesus-Israel (i): the way of Jesus
8. Jesus-Israel (ii): the 'suffering servant and 'son of man'
9. Jesus-Israel (iii): Matthew 1-4
10 Jesus-Yahweh
11. Summaries: a. Christ and history
b. applied typology
Part III. Typology in the Divine Comedy: 12. Introductory
13. Figural realism and the state of souls after death
14. Dante and the aesthetes: the typology of death
15. Prophecy and the typology of redemption
Conclusion
Bibliography
Indices.