Niels Christian Hvidt
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195314472
- eISBN:
- 9780199785346
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195314472.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Prophecy plays an important role in the Old Testament. This importance does not end but continues throughout early Judaism, albeit under different forms and genres such as apocalyptic literature, ...
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Prophecy plays an important role in the Old Testament. This importance does not end but continues throughout early Judaism, albeit under different forms and genres such as apocalyptic literature, eschatological prophecy, clerical prophecy, and sapiental prophecy. It equally continues in the history and writings of the early church. The New Testament portrays Christ as the supreme prophet in not merely forwarding words of God to God's people, but being the word of God. Prophecy continued to mutate in the history of Christianity but kept its vigor. It re-emerged in the monastic movements, medieval visionary mysticism, passion mysticism, the great Marian apparitions, augmenting in the 19th century, and in possible contemporary prophetic personalities such as the Greek-Orthodox Vassula Rydén.Less
Prophecy plays an important role in the Old Testament. This importance does not end but continues throughout early Judaism, albeit under different forms and genres such as apocalyptic literature, eschatological prophecy, clerical prophecy, and sapiental prophecy. It equally continues in the history and writings of the early church. The New Testament portrays Christ as the supreme prophet in not merely forwarding words of God to God's people, but being the word of God. Prophecy continued to mutate in the history of Christianity but kept its vigor. It re-emerged in the monastic movements, medieval visionary mysticism, passion mysticism, the great Marian apparitions, augmenting in the 19th century, and in possible contemporary prophetic personalities such as the Greek-Orthodox Vassula Rydén.
Morton D. Paley
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199262175
- eISBN:
- 9780191698828
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199262175.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This chapter examines the interpretation and explanation of the topics of apocalypse and millennium in the works of English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, In his series of poems written ...
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This chapter examines the interpretation and explanation of the topics of apocalypse and millennium in the works of English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, In his series of poems written during the 1790s, Coleridge has postulated a transformation of life through a revolution that would fulfil Old and New Testament prophecies. However, he was prevented by historical events from supplying the millennial sequel to the apocalypse of revolution. Moreover, after the 1790s, Coleridge discontinued tackling the issue of apocalypse and millennium in his poetry.Less
This chapter examines the interpretation and explanation of the topics of apocalypse and millennium in the works of English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, In his series of poems written during the 1790s, Coleridge has postulated a transformation of life through a revolution that would fulfil Old and New Testament prophecies. However, he was prevented by historical events from supplying the millennial sequel to the apocalypse of revolution. Moreover, after the 1790s, Coleridge discontinued tackling the issue of apocalypse and millennium in his poetry.
