Revelation

Dates

Section A

Dec. 8th        

 

Section B

Nov. Dec 9th   

Readings

ENT: Ch 24

Group

Briefly present an historical survey of interpreting the book of Revelation. Start with the Patristics and finish with modern times

 

(6 people)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dating

 

Reading Revelation: A Question of Genre

 

*Letter?

*Prophecy?

*Apocalypse?

*Liturgy?

 

Pitfalls in Reading

*Literalism

*Escapism

*Fanaticism

     

Language of Apocalyptic Literature

*Monster Myth

*Cosmos Myth

 

See Apocalypse of Peter

 

Message of Revelation

 

*God is sovereign

*Evil is Endemic to the Cosmos

*The End is at Hand

*Christ shall overcome

 

 

Revelation and the MILLENNIUM

 

*Premillennialism

*Postmillennialism

*Amillennialism

 

 

 

 

Further Reading

Readings from the First-Century World 197 -200.