Essays on Revelation: Appropriating Yesterday's Apocalypse in Today's World - Paperback

by Gerald L. Stevens (Editor)

The book of Revelation perennially provokes outlandish futurist predictions proven patently false over time. Such prophecy failures leave the inquiring mind with a strong sense that the book of Revelation is nothing but a hoax, safely ignored and without contemporary relevance. The inevitable practical result, not only for church members, but for their ministers as well, is a canonical book stripped bare of canonical authority. In this volume, six contributors collectively attempt to provide a path toward recanonizing Revelation, reclaiming its authority and relevance through christological foundations. The result is a book not only useful in the collegiate and seminary classroom, but also for serious small-group Bible studies wanting to glean from Revelation something deeper than a fear of being "left behind."

Author Biography

Gerald L. Stevens is Professor of New Testament and Greek at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and author of several highly regarded textbooks on the Greek language with Cascade Books: New Testament Greek Intermediate (2008), New Testament Greek Primer (3rd ed., 2010), and New Testament Greek Syntax (forthcoming).