Archive for the ‘Theology’ Category

Virgil Ambrose Cruz, The Mark of the Beast

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Cruz, Virgil Ambrose. The Mark of the Beast: A Study of the ΧΑΡΑΓΜΑ [CHARAGMA] in the Apocalypse. Amsterdam: Academische Pers N. V., 1973. 153 pp. This thesis is a very important, but also quite neglected study. Cruz carefully surveys how the mark of the beast is used in Revelation. One of the most ...

Robert C. Waddell, The Spirit of the Book of Revelation

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Waddell, Robert C. The Spirit of the Book of Revelation. Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series, 30. Blandford Forum: Deo Publishing, 2006. xii + 226 pp. This book is the author's revised Ph.D. thesis at the University of Sheffield, supervised by Professors L. C. A. Alexander and J. C. Thomas. According to ...

Johann Albrecht Bengel

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Johann Albrecht Bengel, who is also known by the English rendering: John Albert Bengel, was born in Württemberg i Germany in 1687. He died in 1752. He was contemporary with Johann Sebastian Bach who lived from 1685 to 1750. While Bach was a North German, Bengel was from the South ...

Konrad Huber, Einer gleich einem Menschensohn

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Huber, Konrad. Einer gleich einem Menschensohn: Die Christusvisionen in Offb 1,9-20 und Offb 14,14-20 und die Christologie der Johannesoffenbarung. Neutestamentliche Abhandlungen, N.S., 51. Münster: Aschendorff, 2007. viii + 361 pp.Dr. Konrad Huber (b. 1965), extraordinary professor of NT, University of Innsbruck, argues that the explicit visions of Christ functions as ...

Keith A. Mathison (ed.), When Shall These Things Be?

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Mathison, Keith A., ed. When Shall These Things Be? A Reformed Response to Hyper-Preterism. Phillipsburg, New Jersey: P & R Publishing, 2004. xxii + 376 pp.This volume critiques "hyper-preterism," the view that all prophecy in Scripture has already been fulfilled.For more on this volume, visit Riddleblog's "Eschatology Q & A ...

Ulfgard, Feast and Future

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Ulfgard, Håkan. Feast and Future: Revelation 7:9-17 and the Feast of Tabernacles. Coniectanea Biblica, New Testament Series, 22. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1989. viii + 186 pp.The author is currently assoc. professor at Linköping University, Sweden (see more in Swedish).The author's conclusion is that "the connection with the Feast ...

Trench, Epistles to the Seven Churches

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Trench, Richard Chenevix. Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia, Revelation II.III. 1st ed. London: Parker, Son, & Bourn, 1861. xi + 225 pp. At least six editions were published in the UK and the USA in the 19th century. Reprint. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock ...