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The Book of Revelation or Book of the Apocalypse is the final book of the New Testament (and therefore the final book of the Christian Bible). Written in Koine Greek, its title is derived from the first word of the text: apokalypsis, meaning 'unveiling' or 'revelation'. The Book of Revelation is the only apocalyptic book in the New Testament canon.
Book of Nature. The Book of Nature is a religious and philosophical concept originating in the Latin Middle Ages that explores the relationship between religion and science, which views nature as a book for knowledge and understanding. Early theologians, such as St. Paul, [1] believed the Book of Nature was a source of God 's revelation to ...
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e. 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. The Historicist view follows a straight line of continuous fulfillment of ...
The Commentary on the Apocalypse (Commentaria in Apocalypsin) is a Latin commentary on the biblical Book of Revelation written around 776 by the Spanish monk and theologian Beatus of Liébana (c. 730–after 785). [ 1 ] The surviving texts differ somewhat, and the work is mainly famous for the spectacular illustrations in a group of illustrated ...
Peter Lombard (also Peter the Lombard, [9] [5] Pierre Lombard or Petrus Lombardus; [10] c. 1096 – 21/22 August 1160) was an Italian scholastic theologian, Bishop of Paris, and author of Four Books of Sentences which became the standard textbook of theology, for which he earned the accolade Magister Sententiarum.
The Apocryphon of James, [1] also called the Secret Book of James[2][3] or the Apocryphal Epistle of James, [4][5] is a Gnostic epistle. [1][4] It is the second tractate in Codex I of the Nag Hammadi library. [4][5] The tractate is a Coptic translation of a Greek original, [4] probably written in Egypt, [1][4] with estimates of the date ranging ...
Saxon University Library, Dresden. Kabbalistic prayer book from Italy, 1803. Jewish Museum of Switzerland, Basel. Kabbalah or Qabalah (/ kəˈbɑːlə, ˈkæbələ / kə-BAH-lə, KAB-ə-lə; Hebrew: קַבָּלָה, romanized:Qabbālā, lit. 'reception, tradition') [ 1 ][ a ] is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish ...