The Revelation of John

The Revelation of JohnAs the only book of its kind in the New Testament, Revelation can be difficult to understand, and for readers without specialized training, the historical critical approach used in many commentaries can provide more complication than illumination. Here James Resseguie applies the easily understandable tools introduced in his primer on narrative criticism to this challenging book. He shows how Revelation uses such features as rhetoric, setting,

The writers introduce a wide range of innovative models to unravel the culture of the biblical world

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The book covers not only New Testament Greek but also the wider range of Bible-related Greek (LXX and other Koine texts)

Christians appear to be caught up in the same animosity as the culture at large

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and economics

● a healthier spiritual alternative: a return to mysticism and the poetry of Meister Eckhart

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Each practice is illustrated through the story of a figure from mission history who embodied that practice

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particularly that which emerges from the classical tradition of Aristotle (as opposed to reading the book

While this approach has value