The Book of Revelation (The Bible in Medieval Tradition | BMT)
Overview
Medieval exegesis of the Apocalypse from Richard of St. Victor through Nicolas of Lyra.
In this volume Franciscan scholar David Burr concentrates on the mendicant contribution to the book of Revelation. Clashing interpretive strategies developed, mirroring authority structures in the context of the new institutional framework of the university, the new methodology of scholasticism, and expanding papal authority. By the early fourteenth century a clear victory of one strategy and one structure emerges in the work of Pierre Auriol and Nicholas of Lyra, and, conversely, the defeat of another in the posthumous condemnations of Petrus Iohannis Olivi and, to some extent, Joachim of Fiore.
This is the fifth volume of The Bible in Medieval Tradition (BMT), a series designed to reconnect the church with part of its rich history of biblical interpretation.
Catholic Media Association CMA Book Awards Theology - History of Theology, Church Fathers and Mothers Third Place (2020)
- Discusses the history of early and medieval interpretations of Revelation
- Analyzes medieval culture and how it shaped biblical interpretation
- Concentrates on the mendicant contribution to the book of Revelation
- Richard of Saint Victor
- Joachim of Fiore
- Early Joachism
- Alexander Minorita
- The Paris Mendicant Model
- Bonaventure’s Collationes in hexaemeron
- Early Olivi
- Olivi’s Commentary on Revelation
- Petrus Aurioli
- Nicholas of Lyra
A fine addition to both Revelation scholarship and the history of the Medieval Church.
The Expository Times
- Title: The Book of Revelation
- Author: David D. Burr
- Series: The Bible in Medieval Tradition (BMT)
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Publication Date: 2019
- Pages: 416
- Resource Type: Commentary
- Topic: Revelation