Autopsie d’une prophétie : interprétations dissidentes de l’Apocalypse de Jean

• Main Author: Bertrand Méheust
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Éditions de la Sorbonne 2013-12-01
• Series: Socio-anthropologie
• Subjects: knowledge from parapsychology; psychical sciences; exegesis; prophecy
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/socio-anthropologie/1526

The Apocalypse of John faces us with a puzzle. Firstly from a historical, philological and exegetical point of view, as despite an apparent consensus, there is still no agreement on the identity of its author, the time the text was written, and the meaning of the visions it unfolds. And secondly from a philosophical and psychological perspective as the very nature of prophetic experience is still unknown. In this article both puzzles are dealt with in turn, and conflicting opinions are discussed. In the first part, the author examines Claude Tresmontant’s work, and attempts in the second to look at the prophetic experience in the light of concepts and knowledge from parapsychology.