Apocalypse Recalled: The Book of Revelation After Christendom - Couverture souple

 
9780800634926: Apocalypse Recalled: The Book of Revelation After Christendom
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0800634926 ISBN 13 : 9780800634926
Editeur : Augsburg Fortress, 2002

Synopsis

The Book of Revelation has often been read as a set of endtime scenarios, glorifying a vengeful God and predicting and even fomenting apocalyptic violence. Yet it continues to exert a profound hold on the dreams and visions, fears and nightmares of our contemporary, first-world, secular culture.Harry Maier insists that, however much one is skeptical of its misuse or awed by its influence, Revelation still harbors a powerful and important message for Christians today. His fascinating book, erudite yet also intensely personal, asks us to recall Apocalypse through a careful exegesis of Revelation's deeper literary currents against the backdrop of imperial Rome. He explores the narrrator's literary identity, the plot or journey of the text, its many ocular and aural dimensions, and the ambiguous temporal dimensions of its "past vision of a future time." Revelation, he believes, "offers an inversion of the violent and militaristic ideals of a first-century Roman Empire by offering a highly ironical political parody of imperial politics and insisting the true power belongs to the hero of the Apocalypse, the Slain Lamb."In the end, Apocalypse Recalled seeks to free the imprisoned John of Patmos and employ his massively influential and controversial text to awaken a sleeping, sidelined, and culturally assimilated church to new imperatives of discipleship.Key FeaturesA responsible study that rescues the Book of Revelation from fundamentalist interpretationsA call to understand and emulate the early church's relationship to political powerA creative hypothesis about the literary character of the book

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À propos de l'auteur

Harry O. Maier is Associate Professor of New Testament Studies, Vancouver School of Theology. He is also author of The Social Setting of the Ministry as Reflected in the Writings of Hermas, Clement, and Ignatius (2002).

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Éditeur
Augsburg Fortress
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0800634926
ISBN 13 
9780800634926
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Éditeur
Maier Harry O.
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