5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Hebrew shepherd-prophet from Tekoa who was the first of the 'writing prophets' — whose book of oracles attacks the social injustice of the Northern Kingdom (exploitation of the poor, luxury amid poverty, hollow ritual) and predicts the Assyrian destruction as divine punishment.
Greek god of reason, light, music, prophecy, and medicine — the god associated with Delphi and the Oracle — whose association with order and rational clarity makes him the symbol of the Apollonian principle in Nietzsche's Apollo/Dionysus framework.
The prophetic book recording the oracles and biography of Jeremiah — the 'weeping prophet' who warned Judah of Babylonian destruction, witnessed the fall of Jerusalem, and meditated on the anguish of prophetic calling.
Jewish prophet and ascetic who baptized Jesus and proclaimed the imminent coming of the Kingdom of God — regarded in Christianity as the last Hebrew prophet and forerunner of Jesus.
English poet and visual artist who wrote Songs of Innocence and Experience and the prophetic books (Milton, Jerusalem) — a visionary who claimed to see angels in trees — and whose critique of 'mind-forged manacles' and 'dark satanic mills' is the Romantic condemnation of Enlightenment rationalism.