Silence and praise : rhetorical cosmology and political theology in the Book of Revelation /
In Silence and Praise, Ryan Leif Hansen begins with the premise that cosmology is a central focus in John's Apocalypse. However, John's intention in reflecting theologically on the nature, existence, and destiny of the created world is not in order to explicate a stable system. Rather, Joh...
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Minneapolis [Minnesota] :
Fortress Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Emerging scholars.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- "The apocalyptic technique" : how John's apocalypse makes meaning
- The war of worldcraft : John's cosmic rhetoric against Roman imperial cult discourse
- The three cycles of seven as object of interpretation
- Silence : the prayerful endurance and non-participation of the saints
- Praise : narrating the emergence of God's reign and the new creation
- Silence and praise : economic non-participation and narrating the new creation
- Toward an apocalyptic political theology
- Bibliography
- Index of subjects and names.
