Christopher Rowland

Radical Prophet (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786732385
• Artikelnr.: 55385424

Autorenporträt

Christopher Rowland is the Dean Ireland Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, Queen's College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

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