Robert P. Vande Kappelle's Hope Revealed: The Message of the Book of Revelation—Then PDF

By Robert P. Vande Kappelle

Hope Revealed units the list instantly. Revelation isn't really as weird and wonderful and vindictive as many have imagined. Its message is hopeful, no longer pessimistic, world-affirming, now not world-denying, and carefully congruent with the biblical emphasis on love, reconciliation, and forgiveness. Revelation invitations us to drink deeply from its metaphors of promise and caution, imaginative and prescient and blessing. whereas Revelation’s approach and theological conceptuality are really various from the remainder of the hot testomony, after they are preferred of their personal correct, they give a contribution to make this ebook not just one of many best literary works within the Christian canon, but additionally one of many maximum theological achievements of early Christianity.

Hope Revealed is a literary paintings of excessive order. . . . it will likely be a helpful instrument either homiletically and spiritually for many years to come back. I expect this booklet will open doorways scholars of the scriptures haven't been capable of input for a really lengthy time.”
––William J. Carl III, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

“This is a observation born of 1 man’s fight to reclaim God’s love in John’s Revelation. opposite to well known theology, Revelation finds a kinder, extra loving God than the Left Behind sequence depicts. this isn't a booklet for literalists yet when you search to deepen their knowing of this knowable God.”
––Daniel A. Stinson, Washington and Jefferson College

Robert P. Vande Kappelle is collage Chaplain and Professor of non secular stories at Washington & Jefferson university in Washington, Pennsylvania. he's the writer of various books, together with his “Adventures in Spirituality” trilogy: Love by no means Fails (2006), The Invisible Mountain (2010), and Into skinny Places (2011). His most up-to-date titles are Beyond Belief (2012), a theological gestalt, and Iron Sharpens Iron (2013), its dialogue consultant (2013). he's an ordained minister within the Presbyterian Church (USA).

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