From Every People and Nation: The Book of Revelation in Intercultural PerspectiveDavid M. Rhoads Fortress Press - 277 páginas A diverse group of New Testament scholars and theologians offer myriad paths to a better understanding of the Book of Revelation. They discuss topics such as Hispanic / Cuban American and African American perspectives, ecological issues, postcolonial themes, and liberation theology. The book also provides a set of guidelines for intercultural Bible study.The volume's contributors include: Brian K. Blount Justo Gonz lez Harry O. Maier Clarice J. Martin James Okoye Tina Pippin Pablo Richard Barbara R. Rossing V tor Westhelle Khiok-Khng Yeo |
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... women all around the world , including women and men from suppressed groups within the Western world , were excluded from Western bibli- cal studies because white , male , Christian ( predominantly Protestant and clergy ) , European and ...
... women all around the world , including women and men from suppressed groups within the Western world , were excluded from Western bibli- cal studies because white , male , Christian ( predominantly Protestant and clergy ) , European and ...
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... women of color in the West — African Americans , Hispanic / Latino Americans , Native Americans , and Asian Americans — identified racism , oppression , and marginalization in the Bible und its interpretations and have provided fresh ...
... women of color in the West — African Americans , Hispanic / Latino Americans , Native Americans , and Asian Americans — identified racism , oppression , and marginalization in the Bible und its interpretations and have provided fresh ...
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... women , for example , labor under racism , economic classism , and sexism . All these factors , then , will affect our interpretations , some more than others . We can hardly take any of them for granted . To imagine that they do not ...
... women , for example , labor under racism , economic classism , and sexism . All these factors , then , will affect our interpretations , some more than others . We can hardly take any of them for granted . To imagine that they do not ...
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... women , and between people of different races and ethnic groups . The goal of these interactions is to interpret and appropriate the Bible so as to overcome destructive power dynamics and to promote an empowerment ethic for liberation ...
... women , and between people of different races and ethnic groups . The goal of these interactions is to interpret and appropriate the Bible so as to overcome destructive power dynamics and to promote an empowerment ethic for liberation ...
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... women . She demonstrates how the female figures of Revelation — whether god or evil , heroine or whore — are all treated either as objects of desire or objects of violence . In the final visions , women are simply absent . Pippin ...
... women . She demonstrates how the female figures of Revelation — whether god or evil , heroine or whore — are all treated either as objects of desire or objects of violence . In the final visions , women are simply absent . Pippin ...
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Coming Out of Babylon A FirstWorld Reading of Revelation among Immigrants | 62 |
Polishing the Unclouded Mirror A Womanist Reading of Revelation 1813 | 82 |
Power and Worship Revelation in African Perspective | 110 |
The Heroine and the Whore The Apocalypse of John in Feminist Perspective | 127 |
Reading the Apocalypse Resistance Hope and Liberation in Central America | 146 |
For the Healing of the World Reading Revelation Ecologically | 165 |
Hope for the Persecuted Cooperation with the State and Meaning for the Dissatisfied Three Readings of Revelation from a Chinese Context | 200 |
Intercultural Bible Study Three Principles | 223 |
Intercultural Bible Study Some Suggestions for Group Interaction | 232 |
Reading Profile Cultural Identity Social Location Personal Perspectives | 241 |
A Study Guide for Ten Sessions of Two Hours | 243 |
Intercultural Bible Study | 249 |
Cultural Interpretation | 252 |
The Book of Revelation | 261 |
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African American Apocalypse of John apocalypticism Asia Minor author of Revelation Babylon Beast Bible study Biblical Interpretation Book of Revelation challenge chapter China Chinese Christians churches context critique cultural interpretation cultural/social location David Rhoads death depicts destruction dialogue diverse divine dominant Domitian dragon earth ecological economic Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza emperor enslaved eschatology ethical evil experience faith fantasy female Feminist first-century future gender God's heaven hope human ideology idolatry imagery imperial imperial cult intercultural Jerusalem John's Apocalypse Lamb language Left Behind series liberation lives male Maoism means narrative nations Nicolaitans oppression participants Pergamum persecution perspective political postcolonial power dynamics present prophet readers reading of Revelation reality religion religious resistance Revelation's rhetorical Roman Empire Rome Satan Schüssler Fiorenza Signifying slave narratives slavery slaves social location society spiritual symbolic Testament Theology tion traditional transformation violence vision Whore witness womanist women words worship
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Página 171 - And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, 'See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as their God; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away.
Página 77 - The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever.
Página 36 - Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.
Página 30 - When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, 'How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth...
Página 104 - But I now entered on my fifteenth year — a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
Página 104 - He tried his utmost to corrupt the pure principles my grandmother had instilled. He peopled my young mind with unclean images, such as only a vile monster could think of. I turned from him with disgust and hatred.
Página 82 - And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo any more, 12 cargo of gold, silver, jewels and pearls, fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet, all kinds of scented wood, all articles of ivory, all articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble, " cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls. 14 "The fruit for which thy soul longed has gone from thee, and...