shepherd of hermas

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    THE SHEPHERD OF HERMAS (1st-2nd Cent.) 2 Questions on Praying in Grief & Collective Guilt

    The Shepherd of Hermas presents itself as Hermas of Rome's account of his visions of Christ in the form of a shepherd. The Muratorian Fragment (2nd to 3rd century) says that it was written "very recently" under the papacy of Pius I, the brother of Hermas, in 140-155 AD. The Catholic Encyclopedia...
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    What reasons are there to think that the Shepherd of Hermas was a literal vision or was fictional?

    Do you believe that Hermas was (A) simply narrating actual visions, wherein divine beings appeared to come and talk to him, or (B) deliberately created and composed his "Shepherd" as part of a literary genre of apocalyptic "revelatory visions" in expectation of nearing End Times (eg. that the...
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