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Article: Apocalypticism in the Western Tradition
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- The Catholic Historical Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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Apocalypticism in the Western Tradition. By Bernard McGinn. [Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS 430.] (Brookfield,Vermont:Variorum,Ashgate Publishing Co. 1994. Pp. x, 324. $89.95.)
Bernard McGinn is a master in the field of early and medieval apocalypticism. This volume of his collected essays-all written between 1971 and 1991amply demonstrates both the impressively wide range of his studies and the richness of detail which brings his themes to life. There is inevitably some overlap between some essays but the different articles have been so arranged as to form a coherent whole rather than a random selection. The volume justly deserves its broad title.
In Part I,"Background and ...