Northrop Frye Quotes About Prophecy

Quotes about: Prophecy

• The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts... Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Independent, Emotional

  "The Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Volume 19: 'The Secular Scripture' and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976-1991". Book by Northrop Frye, November 1, 2005.

• The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.

  Northrop Frye

  Book, May, Old Testament

  "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

• I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.

  Northrop Frye

  Egypt, Law, Israel

  Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee (2006). “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature”, p.126, University of Toronto Press

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