Tag: Revelation

Approaching Apocalypse Unveiling Revelation in Victorian Writing


Free Download Kevin Mills, "Approaching Apocalypse: Unveiling Revelation in Victorian Writing"
English | 2007 | pages: 228 | ISBN: 0838756271, 1611482372 | PDF | 1,2 mb
This volume explores a wide range of Victorian texts, including novels, poems, sermons, and some less easily categorized writings, in terms of their use of language and imagery suggestive of the Apocalypse. The focus is less upon the conscious or deliberate use of the Apocalypse as a source of sublime metaphors or as a guide to cultural decline than on the ways in which certain tropes recur in the writings of the period. These can be characterized in terms of oppositions that both structure apocalyptic literature and characterize much Victorian writing: human/inhuman, desert/city, veiled/revealed, time/the eternal, this world/other world. The book sets out to show that what might be called a cultural affinity exists between the writing of the Victorian era and apocalyptic literature, and to argue that such a relationship was unavoidable for a society steeped in the bible as it confronted dramatic changes in its relationships with nature, God, and time.

(more…)

Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen


Free Download Nathan Leach, "Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East: Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen "
English | ISBN: 1032382678 | 2023 | 344 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 40 MB
This collection of essays from a diverse group of internationally recognized scholars builds on the work of Steven J. Friesen to analyze the material and ideological dimensions of John’s Apocalypse and the religious landscape of the Roman East.

(more…)

Recovering the Monstrous in Revelation


Free Download Heather Macumber, "Recovering the Monstrous in Revelation "
English | ISBN: 1978703031 | 2021 | 212 pages | PDF | 16 MB
This book reads Revelation through the lens of the monster. Using monster theory, Heather Macumber approaches the cosmic beings in John’s Apocalypse as other and monstrous regardless of whether they are found in heaven or the abyss, with significant attention paid to the monstrous body and how it causes both unease and wonder. Intertwined with descriptions of cosmic monsters, this book also interrogates the role of John as a maker of horror stories, who casts his opponents as the other and monstrous. Despite the tendency to view John and the heavenly creatures as the heroes of this apocalyptic tale, Macumber aims to recover their own liminal and hybrid characteristics that mark them as monstrous.

(more…)

Revelation An Introduction and Commentary


Free Download Ian Paul, Eckhard J. Schnabel, Nicholas Perrin, "Revelation: An Introduction and Commentary"
English | 1987 | pages: 387 | ISBN: 0830843000 | EPUB | 1,3 mb
The Book of Revelation is a remarkable text. A fascinating piece of Scripture as well as an extraordinary piece of literature, its interpretation has affected our theology, art and worship, and even international politics. Yet it is widely neglected in the church and almost entirely avoided from the pulpit. In this Tyndale Commentary, Ian Paul takes a disciplined approach to the text, paying careful attention to the ways that John draws from the Old Testament. Additionally, Paul examines how the original audience would have heard this message from John, and then draws helpful comments for contemporary reflection. The Tyndale Commentaries are designed to help the reader of the Bible understand what the text says and what it means. The Introduction to each book gives a concise but thorough treatment of its authorship, date, original setting, and purpose. Following a structural Analysis, the Commentary takes the book section by section, drawing out its main themes, and also comments on individual verses and problems of interpretation. Additional Notes provide fuller discussion of particular difficulties. In the new Old Testament volumes, the commentary on each section of the text is structured under three headings: Context, Comment, and Meaning. The goal is to explain the true meaning of the Bible and make its message plain.

(more…)

The Revelation of Imagination From Homer and the Bible through Virgil and Augustine to Dante


Free Download The Revelation of Imagination: From Homer and the Bible through Virgil and Augustine to Dante by William Franke
English | August 17, 2015 | ISBN: 0810131196 | 424 pages | PDF | 2.26 Mb
In The Revelation of Imagination, William Franke attempts to focus on what is enduring and perennial rather than on what is accommodated to the agenda of the moment. Franke’s book offers re-actualized readings of representative texts from the Bible, Homer, and Virgil to Augustine and Dante. The selections are linked together in such a way as to propose a general interpretation of knowledge. They emphasize, moreover, a way of articulating the connection of humanities knowledge with what may, in various senses, be called divine revelation. This includes the sort of inspiration to which poets since Homer have typically laid claim, as well as that proper to the biblical tradition of revealed religion. The Revelation of Imagination invigorates the ongoing discussion about the value of humanities as a source of enduring knowledge.

(more…)

Revealing Revelation How God’s Plans for the Future Can Change Your Life Now [Audiobook]


Free Download Revealing Revelation: How God’s Plans for the Future Can Change Your Life Now (Audiobook)
English | May 03, 2022 | ASIN: B09TG44XPD | MP3@64 kbps | 9h 46m | 253.62 MB
Author: Amir Tsarfati, Rick Yohn
Narrator: Amir Tsarfati

Revelation was written because God wants us to know what the future holds. For Christians, the prophetic truths within provide wisdom, reassurance, and discernment – while for unbelievers, Revelation is a plea to receive God’s grace while there is still time.

(more…)