Figura and Fulfillment
Subtitle: Typology in the Bible, Art and Literature
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781498228800
Description: An enlarged edition of The Lion and The Lamb: Figuralism and Fulfillment in the Bible, Art, and Literature. Beginning with Northrop Frye's discussion of biblical typology--the understanding of the Old Testament as a source of anticipation of the New Testament--Tibor Fabiny develops his hermeneutical discussion using the insights of reader-response criticism in a wholly original way. His approach to biblical typology is both comprehensive and interdisciplinary, using material from literature and the visual arts in the Christian tradition. He moves from a discussion of the Bible to examples of typology in medieval art and literature and finally to the drama of Shakespeare and T. S. Elliot in Murder in the Cathedral.