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Author McGinn, Bernard, 1937-

Title Apocalypticism in the Western tradition / Bernard McGinn.

Publication Info. Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt. : Variorum, [1994]
©1994

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  236.0902 M145A    Check Shelf
Description 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Collected studies series ; CS430
Collected studies ; CS430.
Contents Background and historiography. Early apocalypticism: the ongoing debate. -- Apocalypticism in the middle ages. -- Themes of medieval apocalypticism. Symbols of the apocalypse in medieval culture. -- Teste David cum Sibylla: the significance of the Sibylline tradition in the middle ages. -- Angel pope and papal antichrist. -- Pastor angelicus: apocalyptic myth and political hope in the fourteenth century. -- Apocalyptic traditions and spiritual identity in thirteenth-century religious life. -- The significance of Bonaventure's theology of history. -- Joachim of Fiore. The abbot and the doctors: scholastic reactions to the radical eschatology of Joachim of Fiore. -- Joachim of Fiore's Tertius Status: some theological appraisals. -- Alter Moyses: the role of Bernard of Clairvaux in the thought of Joachim of Fiore. -- Influence and importance in evaluating Joachim of Fiore.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Eschatology -- History of doctrines.
Eschatology -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism.
Indexed Term Christianity Eschatology
ISBN 0860783960: £47.50 ($83.95 U.S. est.)
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