Revelation : the past and future of John's apocalypse /
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Eugene, Or. :
Pickwick Publications,
2014
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Apollyon and Armageddon : Revelation's apocalyptic traditions and their interpretation in history. Tributaries of tradition : Jewish sources of John's apocalyptic traditions
- A strong river : historical developments to the Reformation
- Swept away downstream : Reformation to the American Revolution
- A mighty flood : the nineteenth-century deluge
- A hermeneutical swamp : problematic readings
- A glassy sea : learning from history
- Part 2. Beyond Apollyon and Armageddon : setting hermeneutical foundations for the interpretation of Revelation. Interpretive decisions : genre, prophecy, judgments, Millennium
- Theological decisions : christology, ecclesiology, soteriology
- Contextual decisions : historical and literary settings
- Part 3. Apocalypse of Jesus Christ : reading John's vision of a future anticipated from the past. Judgment of the church : the Son of Man and his churches
- Judgment of the world : the sovereign God and his world
- Hope of heaven : God and Christ and their victory
- Epilogue: The future of John's Apocalypse