Events and Their Afterlife
Events and Their Afterlife
The Dialectics of Christian Typology in the Bible and Dante
Alan C. Charity
June 1987
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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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June 1987Paperback
9780521349239
306 pages
216 × 140 × 17 mm
0.39kg
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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.
