Essays on Revelation : Appropriating Yesterday's Apocalypse in Today's World

by Stevens, Gerald L.

• ISBN13: 9781606088791
• ISBN10: 1606088793
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Pickwick Pubns

Summary

The book of Revelation perennially provokes outlandish futurist predictions proven patently false over time. Such prophecy failures leave the inquiring mind with a strong sense that the book of Revelation is nothing but a hoax, safely ignored and without contemporary relevance. The inevitable practical result, not only for church members, but for their ministers as well, Is a canonical book stripped bare of canonical authority. In this volume, six contributors collectively attempt to provide a path toward recanonizing Revelation, reclaiming its authority and relevance through christological foundations. The result is a book not only useful in the collegiate and seminary classroom, but also for serious small-group Bible studies wanting to glean from Revelation something deeper than a fear of being "left behind."

Author Biography

Gerald L. Stevens is Professor of New Testament and Greek at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and author of several highly regarded textbooks on the Greek language with Cascade Books: New Testament Greek Intermediate (2008), New Testament Greek Primer (3rd ed., 2010), and New Testament Greek Syntax (forthcoming).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. ix
List of Figures	p. x
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Abbreviations	p. xix
A Vision in the Night: Setting the Interpretive Stage for John's Apocalypse	p. 1
One Like a Son of Man: Contemplating Christology in Rev 1:9-20	p. 16
Hallelujah, the Lord our God, the Almighty Reigns: The Theology of the Hymns of Revelation	p. 41
Blessed Are the Peacemakers: The Theology of peace in the Book of Revelation	p. 55
Women and Warriors: Character Development in John's Apocalypse	p. 72
Pure or Defiled? A Sociological Analysis of John's Apocalypse	p. 87
Urban Persons: City and Identity in the Book of Revelation	p. 100
The Text of Revelation: Why neither Armageddon nor 666 May Be Exactly What You Think	p. 116
Confronting the Beast: The Imperial Cult and the Book of Revelation	p. 130
How Green Was John's World? Ecology and Revelation	p. 145
Revelation as Drama: A Staging of the Apocalypse	p. 156
Let the One Who Has Ears: Hearing What the Spirit Says to the Church Today!	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 189
Scripture Index	p. 199
Ancient Documents Index	p. 208
Modern Authors Index	p. 210
Subject Index	p. 212
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