RT Book
T1 The Book of Revelation: a biography
T2 Lives of Great Religious Books
A1 Beal, Timothy K. 1963-
LA English
PP Princeton, NJ
PB Princeton University Press
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1735909270
AB Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Pale Rider: Obscure Origins -- Chapter 3. Apocalypse Not Now: Augustine's Tale of Two Cities -- Chapter 4. Cry Out and Write: Hildegard's Apocalypse -- Chapter 5. Mind's Eye: Joachim in the Forests of History -- Chapter 6. September's Testament: Luther's Bible vs. Cranach's Revelation -- Chapter 7. New World of Gods and Monsters: Othering Other Religions -- Chapter 8. Heaven in a Garage: James Hampton's Throne Room -- Chapter 9. Left Behind, Again: The Rise and Fall of Evangelical Rapture Horror Culture -- Chapter 10. Post Script: Revelation Becomes Us -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
AB The life and times of the New Testament's most mystifying and incendiary bookFew biblical books have been as revered and reviled as Revelation. Many hail it as the pinnacle of prophetic vision, the cornerstone of the biblical canon, and, for those with eyes to see, the key to understanding the past, present, and future. Others denounce it as the work of a disturbed individual whose horrific dreams of inhumane violence should never have been allowed into the Bible. Timothy Beal provides a concise cultural history of Revelation and the apocalyptic imaginations it has fueled.Taking readers from the book's composition amid the Christian persecutions of first-century Rome to its enduring influence today in popular culture, media, and visual art, Beal explores the often wildly contradictory lives of this sometimes horrifying, sometimes inspiring biblical vision. He shows how such figures as Augustine and Hildegard of Bingen made Revelation central to their own mystical worldviews, and how, thanks to the vivid works of art it inspired, the book remained popular even as it was denounced by later church leaders such as Martin Luther. Attributed to a mysterious prophet identified only as John, Revelation speaks with a voice unlike any other in the Bible. Beal demonstrates how the book is a multimedia constellation of stories and images that mutate and evolve as they take hold in new contexts, and how Revelation is reinvented in the hearts and minds of each new generation.This succinct book traces how Revelation continues to inspire new diagrams of history, new fantasies of rapture, and new nightmares of being left behind
CN BS2825.52
SN 978-0-691-18508-8
K1 Eschatology
K1 Religion / History
K1 RELIGION / Christianity / General
K1 RELIGION / Biblical Studies / New Testament
K1 John of Patmos
K1 Manuscript
K1 God
K1 Whore of Babylon
K1 Resurrection of the dead
K1 New Testament
K1 Theology
K1 Protestantism
K1 Narrative
K1 Persecution
K1 Old Testament
K1 Jews
K1 Religious text
K1 Scivias
K1 RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
K1 Second Coming
K1 The Other Hand
K1 Serpents in the Bible
K1 Jesus Movement
K1 Technology
K1 Spirituality
K1 New Media
K1 Illustration
K1 Vulgate
K1 Antipope
K1 Apocalypse
K1 Balaam
K1 Bernard McGinn (theologian)
K1 Books of Kings
K1 Case Western Reserve University
K1 Cataclysm (Dragonlance)
K1 Christendom
K1 Christian mission
K1 Christian right
K1 Christian theology
K1 Clarence Larkin
K1 Clergy
K1 Colonialism
K1 Consummation
K1 David Cronenberg
K1 Deity
K1 Diocletian
K1 Dispensationalism
K1 Divine judgment
K1 Enthronement
K1 Evangelicalism
K1 False prophet
K1 Bible
K1 Book of Revelation
K1 Christian
K1 Christianity
K1 End time
K1 Ex nihilo
K1 Ezekiel
DO 10.1515/9780691185088