Apocalypse then and now

pp. 106-121

in: David Jasper, Readings in the canon of scripture, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1995

Abstract

The human imagination has always been controlled by certain basic images, in which man’s own nature, his relation to his fellows, and his dependence upon the divine power find expression … in ages for which religion and poetry were a common possession, the basic images lived in the conscious mind …1