Ron Browning

The Apocalyptic Heart (eBook, PDF)

The Book of Revelation in an Unjust World

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Is the book of Revelation the biblical book for the twentieth-first century due to the growing interest in apocalyptic? A fresh approach is needed to help access its symbolic mysteries, an approach that avoids fundamentalist, literal interpretation and the tendency in liberal thinking to doubt that God will act decisively in the future in some way. These meditations take us far and wide in an understanding of Christian apocalyptic thought--from the lived faith of refugee and oppressed communities, to traditions of the Orthodox Church. Emphasized throughout is a direction in modern scholarship that sees the catastrophes described in Revelation as symbolic of events that are already happening in the course of world history. It presents the bringing of the era to its end because of the victory of Christ over evil, which is to be finally vanquished with universal judgment and glorious consummation in store. The unfolding work of God's justice is displayed. Fellowship with the martyrs, the servants of the Lamb, is of special significance. The Apocalyptic Heart traces these themes based on particular moments in the text of Revelation and explores their meaning for the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 114
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781532676024
• Artikelnr.: 60108715

Autorenporträt

Ron Browning has been an Anglican priest for 30 years. He currently works with the refugee community of the Karen people from Burma both in Australia and on the Thai Burma border. He is the author of Down and Under: Discipleship in an Inner Urban Setting and Streets Ahead: Building Communities of Hope in the Suburbs of our Cities.