Archive for the ‘Theology’ Category
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Mealy, J. Webb: After the Thousand Years: Resurrection and Judgment in Revelation 20. (JSNT.SS 70). Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1992. 273 pp.Mealy's study is the first monograph on Revelation 20 since Bietenhard's from 1955. Mealy argues in favour of a premillennial position, even though he, at first, seems to present ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Jack Van Deventer, "Amillennial History," Credenda Agenda 14/2 (apparently no date): 34-35.On-line as http://credenda.org/issues/14-2eschaton.phpWhen looking at the Internet for information about Abraham Kuyper, I came across this very interesting article on the history of the term and concept of amillennial(ism): "Amillennial History," by Jack Van Deventer, over at Credenda/Agenda (see ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Kuyper, Abraham. The Revelation of St. John. Trans. John Hendrik De Vries. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1935. Reprint. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 1999. 360 pp. Abraham Kuyper was a very influential Calvinist theologian and statesman. He took both his undergraduate and doctoral degree in ...
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Wainwright, Arthur William. Mysterious Apocalypse: Interpreting the Book of Revelation. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993. 293 pages, bibliography, indices and 35 pages with notes. Reprint. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock publishers, 2001.This very well-written and well researched book contains three parts, the first of which treats "The Millennium and History". It ...
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Wilson, Mark Wayne. The Victor Sayings in the Book of Revelation. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2007. 294 pp. PaperbackThis volume is based on the author's Ph.D.-thesis (see abstract here). Wilson analyses this very important motif that also is also of great importance for the overall interpretation of Revelation's ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
See Kretschmar, Die Offenbarung des Johannes.(This entry is a dummy that allows me to use more categories than Blogger allows).
Posted in Ambrosius Autpertus, Arethas of Caesarea, Cassiodorus, Chiliasm, Dionysios bar Saliba, Francis of Assisi, Hippolytus, Irenaeus, Methodius, The 'thousand-year' problem | No Comments »
Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Bredin, Mark. Jesus, Revolutionary of Peace: A Nonviolent Christology in the Book of Revelation. Paternoster biblical and theological monographs. Carlisle [England]: Paternoster Press, 2003. xii + 262 pp.According to Ted Grimsrud, "Bredin joins in a tradition of reading Revelation as peace literature, going back to G. B. Caird in the ...
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