Apocalypse Recalled: The Book of Revelation After ChristendomFortress Press - 271 páginas The Book of Revelation has often been read as a set of endtime scenarios, glorifying a vengeful God and predicting and even fomenting apocalyptic violence. Yet it continues to exert a profound hold on the dreams and visions, fears and nightmares of our contemporary, first-world, secular culture. Harry Maier insists that, however much one is skeptical of its misuse or awed by its influence, Revelation still harbors a powerful and important message for Christians today. His fascinating book, erudite yet also intensely personal, asks us to recall Apocalypse through a careful exegesis of Revelation's deeper literary currents against the backdrop of imperial Rome. He explores the narrrator's literary identity, the plot or journey of the text, its many ocular and aural dimensions, and the ambiguous temporal dimensions of its "past vision of a future time." Revelation, he believes, "offers an inversion of the violent and militaristic ideals of a first-century Roman Empire by offering a highly ironical political parody of imperial politics and insisting the true power belongs to the hero of the Apocalypse, the Slain Lamb." In the end, Apocalypse Recalled seeks to free the imprisoned John of Patmos and employ his massively influential and controversial text to awaken a sleeping, sidelined, and culturally assimilated church to new imperatives of discipleship. Key Features A responsible study that rescues the Book of Revelation from fundamentalist interpretations A call to understand and emulate the early church's relationship to political power A creative hypothesis about the literary character of the book |
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... empire of globalization . In this adventurous return to an Apocalypse we never left , Maier captures the subversive excitement of the text . His own writing is lively with popular culture and personal anec- dote , rich in its ...
... empire of globalization . In this adventurous return to an Apocalypse we never left , Maier captures the subversive excitement of the text . His own writing is lively with popular culture and personal anec- dote , rich in its ...
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... Empire . While historically it has fueled endtime speculation , it has also been a resource for critical appraisal of the state , the relationship of Christians to political culture , and the place of Christian witness in society . John ...
... Empire . While historically it has fueled endtime speculation , it has also been a resource for critical appraisal of the state , the relationship of Christians to political culture , and the place of Christian witness in society . John ...
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... Empire and the human and ecolog- ical misery it unleashed on the world as antithetical to the intentions of God for humankind and creation . John demanded that his audience reassess its political and economic allegiances and offer a ...
... Empire and the human and ecolog- ical misery it unleashed on the world as antithetical to the intentions of God for humankind and creation . John demanded that his audience reassess its political and economic allegiances and offer a ...
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... Empire . What evidence exists for Roman imperial suppression of the ancient church indicates that persecution was rela- tively rare and sporadic . In what follows I argue that , while some of John's audience may have been suffering ...
... Empire . What evidence exists for Roman imperial suppression of the ancient church indicates that persecution was rela- tively rare and sporadic . In what follows I argue that , while some of John's audience may have been suffering ...
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... Empire . The problem the Apoc- alypse addresses is not too much persecution , but too little . As a means toward a hortatory end , John offers an apocalypse . That is , as the Greek cognate suggests , Revelation presents an " unveiling ...
... Empire . The problem the Apoc- alypse addresses is not too much persecution , but too little . As a means toward a hortatory end , John offers an apocalypse . That is , as the Greek cognate suggests , Revelation presents an " unveiling ...
Índice
1 | |
7 | |
12 | |
Life amid the Ruins | 17 |
Nietzsches Cows | 21 |
Reading as a Laodicean | 30 |
IJohn | 40 |
From Cell to Clinic | 48 |
Games with Time | 123 |
Making Time | 132 |
A Special Kind of Middle | 136 |
Placing Time | 148 |
Taking Time | 156 |
Remembering Apocalypse | 159 |
The Praise of Folly | 164 |
Ironys Stage | 170 |
Against Interpretation | 53 |
Making It Personal | 55 |
Remembering Apocalypse | 61 |
Seeing Things | 64 |
Gods Spectacle | 71 |
Performing Apocalypse | 75 |
Remembering Apocalypse | 87 |
Hearing Voices | 91 |
Making Noises | 108 |
Remembering Apocalypse | 116 |
Irony Demystifying | 178 |
Parodies in the Contact Zone | 182 |
A Fools Paradise | 190 |
Remembering Apocalypse | 198 |
Abbreviations | 208 |
Notes | 210 |
Index of Names and Subjects | 251 |
Index of Biblical References | 262 |
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Apocalypse Recalled: The Book of Revelation After Christendom Harry O. Maier No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2002 |
Términos y frases comunes
ancient Anti-language Apoc Apoca Apocalypse of John Apocalypse's argues audience Aune Babylon beast biblical Book of Revelation Catherine Keller chapter characters Christ Christian commentary contemporary costly testimony critical cruciform depiction describe divine dominant earth economic Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza emperor example exegesis exegetical eyes faithful German God's grammar Greek heaven heavenly Jerusalem Hermas Ibid ideal ideology Imperial Cult insists interpretation ironical irony Jerusalem Jesus John of Patmos John's Apocalypse John's vision language Laodicean Linda Hutcheon listeners live means memory metaphor narration narrative Nicolaitans notions offers Older Testament pagan parody play political praise present prophet R. H. Charles Remembering Apocalypse repent Revelation's reversal rhetorical Roman Empire Roman imperial Schüssler Fiorenza secular sense seven churches seven messages Shepherd of Hermas similarly slain Lamb social society story tense Tertullian theological tion tradition trans unfolds University Press verse voice witness words worship York
Pasajes populares
Página 2 - Bring me my bow of burning gold ! Bring me my arrows of desire ! Bring me my spear ! O clouds, unfold ! Bring me my chariot of fire ! 16 I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land.
Página 144 - I heard was as the voice of harpers harping with their harps : and they sing as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders...
Página 131 - 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 witness they had borne...
Página 75 - In our relation to things, in so far as this relation is constituted by the way of vision, and ordered in the figures of representation, something slips, passes, is transmitted, from stage to stage, and is always to some degree eluded in it — that is what we call the gaze.
Página 152 - Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!
Página 126 - There we shall rest and see, see and love, love and praise. This is what shall be in the end without end. For what other end do we propose to ourselves than to attain to the kingdom of which there is no end?
Página 25 - Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, when in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of the hyperreal and of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology), but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle.
Página 83 - But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; and they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
Página 19 - Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him. .And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ : for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accuseth them before our God day and night.
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Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects Virginia Burrus No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2008 |