Roadmap, myth, or history? An accessible review of The Book of
Revelation for today's audience.
Conversations with Scripture: Revelation is the first book in the
Anglican Association of Biblical Scholar Study Series. Written in
accessible language and sensitive to those who have little or no
experience in reading the bible, each book in the series focuses on
exploring the historical and critical background, as well as how the
biblical texts written centuries ago can still speak to readers today.
Frederick W. Schmidt, also the series editor, explores the approaches
that have dominated the interpretation of John's Apocalypse and offers
the reader an accessible means of understanding and evaluating them.
With this grounding in hand, Schmidt explores how Revelation can shape
our understanding of God, and nurture our spiritual lives in unexpected
ways. Leaving behind left-behind theology, Schmidt offers instead an
approach that allows this obscure, almost opaque text to speak to us
anew about God, faith, hope, and justice.