This aspect is fundamental for an ecclesiastical understanding of the two chapters, and for discerning Scripture’s signification. Before my analytical and systematical exercise, I considered necessary to set forth some landmarks of the ecclesial consciousness, or canon, from the perspective of which Scripture no longer appears as a historical and documentary source (for this reason, the historical-critical method is irrelevant to the Church), but as a testimony of this consciousness. The way it is situated within the scriptural canon (in perfect symmetry with the first three chapters of the Book of Genesis), the chapters of interest suggest a cosmological reading of the whole of Scripture and a cosmological understanding of the history of salvation. An Analytical and Systematical Attempt on Chapters 21 & 22" The present essay proposes an interdisciplinary approach to the last chapters (21 and 22) of St John’s Revelation, text which, in my opinion, should mean for theology more than we are ready to accept usually. "The Final Shape of the World in the Apocalypsis of St John the Theologian: Creation, History, Salvation and Church.
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