The lion and the lamb
Subtitle: figuralism and fulfilment in the Bible, art, and literature
By: Tibor Fabiny.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Typology (Theology); Typology (Linguistics); Hermeneutics.; Religion and literature.; Art and religion.
Description: Beginning with Northrop Frye's discussion of biblical Typology - the understanding of the Old Testament as a source of anticipations 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. Eliot in Murder in the Cathedral.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-158) and index.