Christopher Rowland

Radical Prophet

The Mystics, Subversives and Visionaries Who Foretold the End of the World

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Produktbeschreibung

Christianity began with the conviction that the old order was finished.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781784532659
• ISBN-10: 1784532657
• Artikelnr.: 43357445

Autorenporträt

Christopher Rowland is the Dean Ireland Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, Queen's College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Roots of Christian Radicalism
Chapter 1: 'Would to God that all the Lords people were
Prophets'
Chapter 2: Heaven on Earth: The Roots of Christian
Radicalism in the New Testament
Part 2: Kairos: The Unique Moment and
Apocalyptic Discernment
Chapter 3: Human Actors in the Divine Drama
Chapter 4: Subversive Apocalypse
Part 3: Contrasting Radical Prophets:
Gerrard Winstanley and William Blake
Chapter 5: Gerrard Winstanley: Responding to a
Kairos Moment in English History
Chapter 6: 'From impulse not from rules': William Blake's
Apocalyptic Pedagogy
Part 4: Christian Radicalism in Modernity:
An Example and a Neglected Perspective
Chapter 7: Liberation Theology: How to Proclaim God in a
World that is Inhumane
Chapter 8: Apocalypticism and Millenarian Eschatology:
Recovering Neglected Strands
Epilogue: '. And here I end': Concluding Reflections