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Book Tradition and Apocalypse

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  • Author : David Bentley Hart
  • Publisher : Baker Academic
  • Release : 2022-02-08
  • ISBN : 1493434772
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book Tradition and Apocalypse written by David Bentley Hart and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the two thousand years that have elapsed since the time of Christ, Christians have been as much divided by their faith as united, as much at odds as in communion. And the contents of Christian confession have developed with astonishing energy. How can believers claim a faith that has been passed down through the ages while recognizing the real historical contingencies that have shaped both their doctrines and their divisions? In this carefully argued essay, David Bentley Hart critiques the concept of "tradition" that has become dominant in Christian thought as fundamentally incoherent. He puts forth a convincing new explanation of Christian tradition, one that is obedient to the nature of Christianity not only as a "revealed" creed embodied in historical events but as the "apocalyptic" revelation of a history that is largely identical with the eternal truth it supposedly discloses. Hart shows that Christian tradition is sustained not simply by its preservation of the past, but more essentially by its anticipation of the future. He offers a compelling portrayal of a living tradition held together by apocalyptic expectation--the promised transformation of all things in God.

Book Apocalypse the Believer

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  • Author : Miranda Martin
  • Publisher : Looking Glass Publications INC
  • Release : 2019-12-20
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Apocalypse the Believer written by Miranda Martin and published by Looking Glass Publications INC. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen is a mystical number… Eleven beautiful, powerful, sexy guys. They’re mine. I know it and they know it. They're all sworn to stand by my side and fight the Shadow. Yet it’s not enough to win. The evil forces are always one step ahead of us. Every. Single. Time. We’ve retreated to Tynan, the Dragon Horseman of the Apocalypse's bunker, hoping to regroup and figure out a plan. Some way to strike back but it's not that easy. Not only do we have to fight impossible odds, we have to figure out each other. How do I navigate my way through the hearts of eleven men without hurting anyone? I’m an orphan. An outcast. I’ve never had to manage one relationship much less eleven, and it's becoming very clear that eleven isn’t even the right number. There are supposed to be twelve, plus me. Thirteen. But who is the twelfth? Apocalypse: The Believer is a slow burn fantasy romance with magic, dragons, demons, angels and one headstrong heroine who has to not only save the world but navigate her way through multiple relationships. It is Book Three of The Power of Twelve, a five-book series. Previously unavailable in Kindle Unlimited and published as Divine Agent.

Book Revelation

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Canongate Books
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 0857861018
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book Revelation written by and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

Book I Saw a New Earth

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  • Author : Paul S. Minear
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2003-09-04
  • ISBN : 1592443257
  • Pages : 405 pages

Download or read book I Saw a New Earth written by Paul S. Minear and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-09-04 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Preface: There are indeed few books in the Bible where the modern student does not need deft guidance if reading is to prove profitable. In the case of the Book of Revelation that need becomes absolutely essential. When the average student takes up this book, almost without exception the going is tough, the language baffling, the sense of profit minimal. This situation represents a curious reversal, for in earlier centuries no other part of Scripture so greatly intrigued the imagination of Christendom or so greatly fascinated its painters and musicians .... The book at hand is designed to restore the Apocalypse to its rightful place in Christian thinking. The title asserts a continuing conviction: John as a prophet actually saw a new earth. The ordinary ways of perceiving reality had been radically altered by his faith in Christ.... Even moderns., in their traffic with Òthe earth,Ó have accessible a greater diversity of visions than they suppose. The ancient prophet may still have power to enable us to see a new earth. Such at least is the premise that prompted the publication of this book.

Book The Apocalypse

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  • Author : Rev. Raymond Cross
  • Publisher : WestBow Press
  • Release : 2015-07-08
  • ISBN : 149088629X
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book The Apocalypse written by Rev. Raymond Cross and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible is one of the most misunderstood and mysterious book ever written. Popular to buy but seldom read, it usually sits on bookshelves or coffee tables unused. However, people who do read and believe the Scriptures know for certain it has the power to change lives. This book, The Apocalypse, is written as an assembling of all that is known about the book of Revelation. It is a compilation of many Biblical scholars thoughts regarding interpretations of some of the symbols used by God to describe His prophesies in this book. Of course, much is still unknown, but you are able to addor subtractbasic thoughts simply by studying the Holy Writ yourself. God will show you some things more clearly than me or anyone elseGod wants to inform you!

Book A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse

Download or read book A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse written by Sylvester Bliss and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Apocalypse Now

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  • Author : Professor Duncan B Forrester
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2013-05-28
  • ISBN : 1409477673
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Apocalypse Now written by Professor Duncan B Forrester and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How may people of faith respond wisely, constructively, and courageously to the challenges of a time of terror? How might religious reasons in public debate be a force for reconciliation rather than violence and hatred? In a world in which religious arguments and religious motivations play such a huge public role, there is an urgent responsibility for interpreting what is happening, and engaging with religious views which are commonly regarded as alien, threatening or dangerous. In Apocalypse Now?, Duncan Forrester argues that disorders and atrocities which include the Gulag, the Holocaust, 9/11, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and the Tsunami disaster have shown us that we stand not at the end of history but in the midst of an apocalyptic age of terror which has striking similarities to the time in which Christianity was born. Moving between two times of terror - the early Centuries of Christianity, and today - Forrester asks how religious motivations can play a positive role in the midst of conflicts and disasters. Reading the 'signs of the times' to try to understand what is happening in today's age of terror, Forrester argues that there are huge resources in the Christian tradition that can be productively deployed for a more constructive and faithful response. We are at a turning point - this is a book which should be read.

Book Approaching the Apocalypse

Download or read book Approaching the Apocalypse written by John M. Court and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embracing two thousand years of intense and fiery admonition, "Approaching the Apocalypse" offers students of religion, history and politics the definitive handbook to Doomsday. Ideas about divinely-inspired disaster have an enduring place in the history of Christian thought. For centuries men and women have made preparations for the imminent end of the world, and for the thousand year reign of Christ and his saints. Inspired principally by the startling texts of the "Book of Revelation", Christianity has a rich and varied tradition of looking forward to the purifying fires of Armageddon. But what do recurring motifs like the Rapture, pestilence, biblical prophecy and the building of the New Jerusalem really add up to? And how have interpretations of these patterns differed from century to century?Charting a steady course between the feverish predictions of early Christian heretics like the Montanists, and the febrile outpourings of modern-day millennialists, such as the Branch Davidians and Christian Zionists in America, John M Court explores the continuities and differences between their violent visions of cataclysm. His history comprises an incisive analysis of such movements and figures as the Levellers and Diggers, James Jezreel and his Trumpeters, Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses, cargo-cults and drug cultures. "Approaching the Apocalypse" shows why prophecies of plague, earthquake and flame continue to resonate so powerfully in the Christian imagination, and beyond.

Book Revelation of St  John the Divine

Download or read book Revelation of St John the Divine written by Pope John XXIII and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This prophetical book depicts the ultimate victory of Christ.

Book The Paperback Apocalypse

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  • Author : Robert M. Price
  • Publisher : Prometheus Books
  • Release : 2011-04-26
  • ISBN : 1615920765
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book The Paperback Apocalypse written by Robert M. Price and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great popularity of the Left Behind novels attests to the strong appeal of apocalyptic beliefs in many conservative Christian communities. Biblical scholar Price traces the origin and scriptural basis for such beliefs as the Rapture, the Second Coming, the Antichrist, and Messianic prophecy, and explains the popularity of the books.

Book Apocalypse

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  • Author : Charles B. Strozier
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2002-09-09
  • ISBN : 1592440436
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Apocalypse written by Charles B. Strozier and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-09-09 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By some estimates, as many as fifty million Americans believe that the Apocalypse - when God will remake the world, Jesus will return to rule, and only the faithful will survive - is near. In Apocalypse, psychoanalyst and historian Charles B. Strozier offers a rare and intimate look at the inner lives of such believers through a study of fundamentalist Christians in New York City today.

Book Apocalypse

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  • Author : Jacques Ellul
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2020-05-05
  • ISBN : 1532684452
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Apocalypse written by Jacques Ellul and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There has never been a book provoking more delirium, foolishness and irrational movements, without any relationship to Jesus Christ [than the Book of Revelation].” —Jacques Ellul, Introduction Known for his trenchant critique of modernity and of those Christians who celebrate their captivity to it, Ellul here cuts to the heart of the theological intention of the Book of Revelation, and thereby reveals the liberating gospel in all its offensiveness. Neither an exhaustive commentary nor a work of historical-exegetical analysis, Apocalypse is a provocative, independent interpretation. Ellul seeks to rescue Revelation from the reassuring and orthodox banality to which commentators often reduce it. The goal is to perceive the totality of the book in its movement and structure. “Architecture in movement” is the key to understanding Revelation’s puzzling but simple message. This edition also comes with a new foreword by Jacob Marques Rollison who provides an essential aid for guiding readers through Ellul’s thorough engagement with Revelation.

Book The Christ of the Apocalypse  Contemplating the Faces of Jesus in the Book of Revelation

Download or read book The Christ of the Apocalypse Contemplating the Faces of Jesus in the Book of Revelation written by Msgr. A. Robert Nusca and published by Emmaus Road Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That the Apocalypse of John is a “Revelation of Jesus Christ” (Rev 1:1) is a fact too often overlooked by interpreters of this last book of the Bible. As Msgr. A. Robert Nusca’s The Christ of the Apocalypse: Contemplating the Faces of Jesus in the Book of Revelation proposes, beyond predictions of earthquakes and falling stars, St. John articulates from start to finish a multifaceted and compelling portrait of Jesus Christ. Nusca offers an exegetical reading of selected verses of the Book of Revelation, incorporating rich spiritual and pastoral reflections. The Christ of the Apocalypse above all affirms that St. John’s God- and Christ-centered, symbolic universe offers our contemporary world a spiritual place to stand amid the shifting sands of postmodernity. As Cardinal Thomas Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, writes in his Foreword, “Now, as in the first century, Christians face martyrdom, and those who are not called to die for Christ are called to live for Christ in a world which in many ways rejects the Gospel. More than ever, we need the apocalyptic vision, to have our own vision of reality clarified, and to be strengthened in our evangelical witness.”

Book Apocalypse

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  • Author : David C. Cooper
  • Publisher : Pathway Press
  • Release : 2000-02-01
  • ISBN : 0871480433
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Apocalypse written by David C. Cooper and published by Pathway Press. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the skill that has made him a popular speaker and Christian television personality, Pastor Cooper skillfully opens the Word of God and interprets today's headlines in the light of the Revelation. Clearly, he says, history is going somewhere. Some of the things he discusses are: -- doomsday cults -- the coming economic chaos -- the certain and unmistakable rise of the Antichrist -- the Second Coming of Jesus -- the Great Tribulation -- the Mark of the Beast

Book Apocalypse and Allegiance

Download or read book Apocalypse and Allegiance written by J. Nelson Kraybill and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively introduction, J. Nelson Kraybill shows how the book of Revelation was understood by its original readers and what it means for Christians today. Kraybill places Revelation in its first-century context, opening a window into the political, economic, and social realities of the early church. His fresh interpretation highlights Revelation's liturgical structure and directs readers' attentions to twenty-first-century issues of empire, worship, and allegiance, showing how John's apocalypse is relevant to the spiritual life of believers today. The book includes maps, timelines, photos, a glossary, discussion questions, and stories of modern Christians who live out John's vision of a New Jerusalem.

Book The Late Great Planet Earth

Download or read book The Late Great Planet Earth written by Hal Lindsey and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of The Late Great Planet Earth cannot be overstated. The New York Times called it the "no. 1 non-fiction bestseller of the decade." For Christians and non-Christians of the 1970s, Hal Lindsey's blockbuster served as a wake-up call on events soon to come and events already unfolding -- all leading up to the greatest event of all: the return of Jesus Christ. The years since have confirmed Lindsey's insights into what biblical prophecy says about the times we live in. Whether you're a church-going believer or someone who wouldn't darken the door of a Christian institution, the Bible has much to tell you about the imminent future of this planet. In the midst of an out-of-control generation, it reveals a grand design that's unfolding exactly according to plan. The rebirth of Israel. The threat of war in the Middle East. An increase in natural catastrophes. The revival of Satanism and witchcraft. These and other signs, foreseen by prophets from Moses to Jesus, portend the coming of an antichrist . . . of a war which will bring humanity to the brink of destruction . . . and of incredible deliverance for a desperate, dying planet.

Book The Apocalypse Today

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Forsyth Torrance
  • Publisher : James Clarke & Co.
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN : 9780227674055
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book The Apocalypse Today written by Thomas Forsyth Torrance and published by James Clarke & Co.. This book was released on 1960 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many Christians the Book of Revelations is virtually a closed book. Occasionally a Preacher may borrow a text from it on which to base an address, but systematic exposition of the Apocalypse is rare in the pulpit today. The reason is not far to seek.