ABSTRACT
During the Middle Ages a lengthy debate took place as to the nature and characteristics of prophecy and to its agent, the prophet. eologians were attempting to dene who could be described as a visionary and also to determine whether the interpretation of the Bible might have a prophetic character. eir discussion centred on two fundamental questions: Did the era of the prophets really end with John the Baptist as Christ promised in the Gospels or had another kind of prophecy come into being aer His advent? e answers of the theologians were divergent, some arguing that the prophets had ceased with the Old Testament, others that the Apostolic Age oered the possibility of a new type of prophecy, without dierentiating the identity of the prophet as such. Viewed from this perspective, while the prophet’s nature might remain the same over time, the divine message addressed to the multitude of believers could vary according to the general dynamics of salvation history.
