Lendo Apocalipse com responsabilidade: Testemunho e Adoração incivil - Seguindo o cordeiro rumo à nova criação

by Michael J. Gorman, James Reis (Translator)

O que vem à mente quando o livro de Apocalipse é mencionado?
Para muitos, Apocalipse é o mais enigmático dos livros da Bíblia. Ele é associado a imagens assustadoras do fim dos tempos – o que causa temor e preocupação em muitos cristãos. No entanto, como argumenta Michael J. Gorman, Apocalipse trata sobre Jesus Cristo e como segui-lo em obediência e amor.
Em Lendo Apocalipse com responsabilidade, Gorman oferece um guia para uma leitura teologicamente responsável do livro. O autor comenta o contexto histórico e literário de Apocalipse, relaciona-o com o restante das Escrituras e também com doutrinas e a práticas cristãs – ressaltando a importância do livro para a igreja contemporânea.
Muito mais que um roteiro para o fim dos tempos, Gorman demonstra como Apocalipse é um roteiro para a adoração, a missão e o testemunho cristãos. Descubra como compreendê-lo pode preparar você para um discipulado fiel nesta terra, de forma que todos os medos futuros fiquem para trás!

324 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 15, 2022

About the author

Michael J. Gorman (born 1955) is an American New Testament scholar. He is the Raymond E. Brown Professor of Biblical Studies and Theology at St. Mary's Seminary and University. From 1995 to 2012 he was dean of St. Mary's Ecumenical Institute.

Gorman specializes especially in the letters, theology, and spirituality of the apostle Paul. He is associated with the "participationist perspective" on Paul's theology. His additional specialties are the book of Revelation, theological and missional interpretation of Scripture, the gospel of John, and early Christian ethics. Gorman was born and raised in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, graduating from Glen Burnie High School in Glen Burnie, Maryland. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude in French from Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. He received the Master of Divinity and Doctor of Philosophy cum laude in New Testament from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he was also a teaching fellow in New Testament and an instructor in New Testament Greek. He has also been a visiting professor at Duke Divinity School, Regent College, Carey Baptist College (New Zealand), Wesley Theological Seminary, and two theological schools in Africa. Gorman has led several study trips to Greece/Turkey/Rome and to France/Switzerland. A United Methodist, Gorman is an active layperson and a popular teacher at colleges, seminaries, churches, and conferences representing many traditions. In the mid-2010s, despite still being a Methodist, Gorman began teaching in a Roman Catholic context. His older son, Rev. Dr. Mark Gorman, is a pastor and theologian who is also on the faculty of St. Mary's Ecumenical Institute.

Gorman is the author of nearly twenty books and more than sixty articles on Biblical interpretation and on ethics.