Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation

Reading Revelation Responsibly is for those who are confused by, afraid of, and/or preoccupied with the book of Revelation. In rescuing the Apocalypse from those who either completely misinterpret it or completely ignore it, Michael Gorman has given us both a guide to reading Revelation in a responsible way and a theological engagement with the text itself. He takes interpreting the book as a serious and sacred responsibility, believing how one reads, teaches, and preaches Revelation can have a powerful impact on one's own--and other people's--well-being. Gorman pays careful attention to the book's original historical and literary contexts, its connections to the rest of Scripture, its relationship to Christian doctrine and practice, and its potential to help or harm people in their life of faith. Rather than a script for the end times, Gorman demonstrates how Revelation is a script for Christian worship, witness, and mission that runs counter to culturally embedded civil religion.

• The Theology of the Book of Revelation (New Testament Theology)
• Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination
• Revelation for Everyone (The New Testament for Everyone)
• Apocalypse and Allegiance: Worship, Politics, and Devotion in the Book of Revelation
• Can I Get a Witness?: Reading Revelation through African American Culture
• The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics
• Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire
• Salvation by Allegiance Alone: Rethinking Faith, Works, and the Gospel of Jesus the King
• Revelation and the End of All Things
• Becoming the Gospel: Paul, Participation, and Mission (The Gospel and Our Culture Series (GOCS))