Events and Their Afterlife
The Dialectics of Christian Typology in the Bible and Dante
- Author: Alan C. Charity
- Date Published: June 1987
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521349239
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First published in 1966, Events and their Afterlife has had a lasting influence in its field. This book is concerned with Christian typology and its meanings and implications for our understanding of history, of the Bible, and of Dante's Divine Comedy.
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- Date Published: June 1987
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521349239
- length: 306 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.39kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Typology in the Old Testament:
1. The field of existence: a. myth
b. history
2. God and history: the new and the steadfast
3. Man and history: applied typology
4. God and the future: a typology without application
5. Man and the future: an existential typology
Part II. Typology in the New Testament:
6. The scope of the New Testament typology
7. Jesus-Israel (i): the way of Jesus
8. Jesus-Israel (ii): the 'suffering servant and 'son of man'
9. Jesus-Israel (iii): Matthew 1-4
10 Jesus-Yahweh
11. Summaries: a. Christ and history
b. applied typology
Part III. Typology in the Divine Comedy:
12. Introductory
13. Figural realism and the state of souls after death
14. Dante and the aesthetes: the typology of death
15. Prophecy and the typology of redemption
Conclusion
Bibliography
Indices.
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