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

by Gerald L. Stevens (Editor)

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"

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 2011

Reviews

[David Simon]

The book contains thoughtfully selected topics on the Book of Revelation written by college and seminary professors. Most of the material is very readable and informative.