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Francisco Ribera (1537–1591) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian, identified with the Futurist Christian eschatological view. Life. Ribera was born at Villacastín. [1]
Futurism is a Christian eschatological view that interprets portions of the Book of Revelation, ... Manuel Lacunza (1731–1801) and Francisco Ribera (1537–1591), ...
The view of Futurism, a product of the Counter-Reformation, was advanced beginning in the 16th century in response to the identification of the Papacy as Antichrist. Francisco Ribera, a Jesuit priest, developed this theory in In Sacram Beati Ioannis Apostoli & Evangelistae Apocalypsin Commentarij, his 1585 treatise on the Apocalypse of John. St.
The second, associated with Francisco Ribera and Cornelius a Lapide, was an eschatological system with certain historiosophical elements (Endgeschichtliche Deutung). Over time, another direction appeared, interpreting the visions of the Apocalypse in the context of the author's contemporary times ( Zeitgeschichtliche Deutung ).
In 1825, [69] Irving directed his attention to the study of prophecy and eventually accepted the one-man Antichrist idea of James Henthorn Todd, Samuel Roffey Maitland, Robert Bellarmine, and Francisco Ribera, yet he went a step further. Irving began to teach the idea of a two-phase return of Christ, the first phase being a secret rapture prior ...
Jesuit commentators developed alternate approaches that would later become known as preterism and futurism, and applied them to apocalyptic literature; [9] [10] Francisco Ribera [11] developed a form of futurism (1590), and Luis de Alcazar a form of preterism, at the same period. [12] [13] [14]
Historicism is a method of interpretation in Christian eschatology which associates biblical prophecies with actual historical events and identifies symbolic beings with historical persons or societies; it has been applied to the Book of Revelation by many writers.
In around 1580, Spanish Jesuit Francisco Ribera began work on a commentary on Revelation, which challenged the 'historical' Protestant analysis of biblical prophecy. Abandoning the literal thousand year millennium, he focused on Daniel's 'a time, two times, and half a time,' if 'a time' represented a year, he concluded, then the period added up ...