Critical Quotes Flashcards

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D.H Lawrence - Christ in Revelations

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‘Christ the omnipotent conqueror’, greater than any contemporary political figure

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D.H Lawrence - purpose of Revelation

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‘an escape from the tight little cage of our universe’

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D.H. Lawrence - enemies vs self

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‘to bring your grand enemies down…while you yourself rose up’

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Aune - three-fold function of apocalyptic literature

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a) ‘to legitimate the transcendent authorisation’
b) creating ‘a new actualisation of the original relevatory experience through devices which function to ‘conceal’ what the message ‘reveals’’
c) to ‘modify’ the reader’s perspectives and behaviours

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Aune - what had increasing importance?

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‘individual escatology’ increased in NT - e..g tours of heaven in the Apocalypses of Peter and Paul

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Adela Collins - purpose of Rev

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‘intended to release aggressive feelings in a harmless way’

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Moltmann

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‘the visions remain both realistic and futuristic’; ‘the mere negation of what is negative does not necessarily lead to a definition of the positive’

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Thompson - paradox

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tries to ‘speak for the whole world; yet if it lost its minority status, it would lose its raison d’etre’

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D.H. Lawrence’s theory

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Jesus’ teachings were ‘individual’; Revelation appeals to the ‘collective whole’

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Fawcett

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symbolic language ‘directs our thinking and orientation towards life’

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John Court

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‘vindication of the deaths of Christ and the martyrs’

‘translate the death of Christ into cosmic significance, relevant to world problems’

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Collins

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Use of the Near East ‘combat myth’

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Durkin

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mythology is used to suggest that ‘the powers with threatened Israel were reassertions of the primeval chaos subdued at the Creation’

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Adela Collins - catharsis

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‘the projection onto a cosmic screen is cathartic in that it clarifies and objectifies the conflict’, ‘dualistic framework’

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Adela Collins - expressive language

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‘as expressive language, creates a virtual experience’

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Northrop Frye

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Symbols ‘intensify man’s consciousness’

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Patricia McDonald

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the battle scenes are ‘non-violent conquering’

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Ben Witherington

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‘Apocalyptic literature is, by its very nature, resistance literature’

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Pieter de Villiers

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‘prophetic texts are taken over and reaffirmed by the author of Revelation’