And Then the End Will Come

Early Latin Christian Interpretations of the Opening of the Seven Seals

• Author(s): Douglas W. Lumsden,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 126
• ISBN_10: 1136699082
  ISBN_13: 9781136699085
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / Europe / Medieval , History / Ancient / General , Religion / General , Religion / Ancient ,

Description:... This work examines a centuries-long intellectual tradition in the early Latin church linking the imagery associated with the opening of the Seven Seals of the Apocalypse with programs of ecclesiastical expansion and ascetic reform.