Events and Their Afterlife
The Dialectics of Christian Typology in the Bible and Dante

This book is concerned with Christian typology and its meanings and implications for our understanding of history, of the Bible, and of Dante's Divine Comedy.

Alan C. Charity (Author)

9780521349239, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 May 1987

306 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.39 kg

First published in 1966, Events and their Afterlife has had a lasting influence in its field. This book is concerned with Christian typology and its meanings and implications for our understanding of history, of the Bible, and of Dante's Divine Comedy.

Part I. Typology in the Old Testament: 1. The field of existence: a. myth
b. history
2. God and history: the new and the steadfast
3. Man and history: applied typology
4. God and the future: a typology without application
5. Man and the future: an existential typology
Part II. Typology in the New Testament: 6. The scope of the New Testament typology
7. Jesus-Israel (i): the way of Jesus
8. Jesus-Israel (ii): the 'suffering servant and 'son of man'
9. Jesus-Israel (iii): Matthew 1-4
10 Jesus-Yahweh
11. Summaries: a. Christ and history
b. applied typology
Part III. Typology in the Divine Comedy: 12. Introductory
13. Figural realism and the state of souls after death
14. Dante and the aesthetes: the typology of death
15. Prophecy and the typology of redemption
Conclusion
Bibliography
Indices.

Subject Areas: Religion: general [HRA]