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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777015603321

Autore

Petersen Rodney Lawrence

Titolo

Preaching in the last days [[electronic resource] ] : the theme of "two witnesses" in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / / Rodney L. Petersen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993

ISBN

0-19-774046-4

1-280-52607-6

0-19-536083-4

1-4294-0556-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Disciplina

228.06

228/.06

Soggetti

Theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-301) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; 1. Adventual Prophets; 2. Witnesses Through History; 3. The Dawn of Reformation Preaching; 4. Identification or Representation; 5. Bullinger and the Testimony of the Church; 6. Rebuilding the Temple; 7. Self-Conscious Witnesses: John Foxe and the Martyrs; 8. Forerunners of the Kingdom; 9. Witnesses in the Wilderness; Epilogue; Abbreviations; Selected Bibliography; Name and Subject Index; Scripture Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is an exhaustive examination of an enigmatic passage in the Book of Revelation (11. 3-13) and its interpretation in medieval times and the Reformation.