Radical Prophet

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

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Christianity began with the conviction that the old order was finished. The mysterious, elusive and charismatic figure of Jesus proclaimed that a new era, the Kingdom of God, was dawning. Yet despite its success, and the conversion of the empire which had executed its founder, the religion he inspired was soon domesticated, its counter-cultural radicalism tamed, as the Church attempted to control both its doctrines and its followers. Christopher Rowland here shows that this was never the whole story. At the margins, around the edges, sometimes off the religious map, the apocalyptic flame of the New Testament continued to burn. In 1649 the Diggers occupied St George's Hill to put the egalitarianism of Christ into practice. 'You must break these men or they will break you', Oliver Cromwell declared of the 'lunaticks'. This book argues that such revolutionaries had divined the true intent of the enigma who threw over the tables of the money-changers: to summon a new epoch - strange, iconoclastic, uncomfortable and otherworldly. It gives full weight to a remarkable strain of radical religion that simply refuses to die.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-09-01
Mått:142 x 218 x 20 mm
Vikt:920 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781784532659

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Christopher Rowland is Dean Ireland's Professor Emeritus of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture in the University of Oxford. His many books include Blake and the Bible, Revelation (with Judith Kovacs), The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology, Christian Origins: The Setting and Character of the Most Important Messianic Sect of Judaism, and Radical Christian Writings: A Reader (with Andrew Bradstock).

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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 DiscernmentChapter 3: Human Actors in the Divine Drama Chapter 4: Subversive Apocalypse Part 3: Contrasting Radical Prophets: Gerrard Winstanley and William BlakeChapter 5: Gerrard Winstanley: Responding to a Kairos Moment in English HistoryChapter 6: ‘From impulse not from rules’: William Blake’s Apocalyptic Pedagogy Part 4: Christian Radicalism in Modernity: An Example and a Neglected PerspectiveChapter 7: Liberation Theology: How to Proclaim God in aWorld that is InhumaneChapter 8: Apocalypticism and Millenarian Eschatology: Recovering Neglected Strands Epilogue: ‘… And here I end’: Concluding Reflections