THE TRAJECTORY OF EARLY APOCALYPSE COMMENTARIES

• Published in: Guiding to a Blessed End p. 1
• Main Author: Constantinou, Eugenia Scarvelis
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States Catholic University of America Press 18.02.2013
• Subjects: Artists; Arts; Bible; Biological sciences; Biology; Christianity; Church fathers; Classical mechanics; Economic disciplines; Economics; Employment; Evolutionary biology; Evolutionary studies; Evolutionary theories; Kinematics; Labor economics; Literary history; Literary studies; Literature; Mechanics; Occupations; Physical sciences; Physics; Practical theology; Recapitulation theory; Religion; Sacred texts; Spiritual belief systems; Spiritual leaders; Theology; Trajectories; Writers
• ISBN: 9780813221144; 0813221145
• DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt2jbm6s.6

Every important book of the Bible became the focus of a commentary by one or more of the early Fathers of the Church. Yet not a single major patristic figure, East or West, wrote a commentary on the Book of Revelation. To the modern reader this absence of commentary on such a significant and portentous book is startling. The Apocalypse of John, with all its prophetic significance seems to us an immediate candidate for commentary. But this was not the case for the early Fathers. Without a doubt, the lack of commentaries can be attributed to the unusual subject matter