Apocalypse (the genre) and Apocalypticism (the worldview)

July 08, 2021 NaN
Apocalypse (the genre) and Apocalypticism (the worldview)
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Apocalypse (the genre) and Apocalypticism (the worldview)

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I have started to give some background on the book of Revelation, to help set the stage for my new understanding of it as it has developed over the past year. Much of what I think now is what I’ve thought for 45 years. But the deeper I’ve dug, the more I’ve seen and the more I’ve come to realize that my older perspective (a widely held one among scholars) has some serious flaws (as others too have seen). Read by Petra Ortiz

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