Revelatory Beasts: Christina Rossetti on the Apocalypse and Creation's Worship
This article explicates Christina Rossetti's view that the four beasts surrounding God's throne in Revelation disclose the worship of all creation. It examines Face of the Deep, her commentary on Revelation, alongside her related portrayals of creation's worship in poems included in t...
| Published in: | Christianity & literature |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2021
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Christianity & literature
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HC New Testament KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history NBD Doctrine of Creation |
| Further subjects: | B
Worship
B Revelation B Poetry B Ecotheology B Christina Rossetti |
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| Summary: | This article explicates Christina Rossetti's view that the four beasts surrounding God's throne in Revelation disclose the worship of all creation. It examines Face of the Deep, her commentary on Revelation, alongside her related portrayals of creation's worship in poems included in that commentary and her other devotional writings. It thereby expands recent attention to Rossetti's ecotheology, showing how her view of creation's praise informs her resistance to anthropocentrism, as well as her insistence that Christian devotion and practice must anticipate the life of the world to come through compassionate kinship with other creatures as fellow participants in divine love. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2021.0048 |