Resisting Empire: The Book of Revelation as Resistance Contributor(s): Daniels, C. Wess (Author), Aaron, Darryl (Afterword by), Howard-Brook, Wes (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1594980632 ISBN-13: 9781594980633 Publisher: Barclay Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2019 |
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BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Commentary - New Testament - Revelation - Religion | Biblical Studies - New Testament - Revelation - Religion | Biblical Studies - Prophecy |
Physical Information: 0.32" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.40 lbs) 138 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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Publisher Description: Revelation speaks to the reality that we are caught in the fray of cosmic conflict. We are guilty. We've already been contaminated. But it's not too late for us to exit empire and enter the kingdom. We are yet both victim and victimizer. We have healing work to do, and we must take responsibility for the ways in which we have benefited from and been complicit with the religion of empire. This is the truth of Revelation. God wants to liberate us in body, heart, soul, and mind. We need rescue, and the way we read Revelation determines how we define ourselves and our communities in relation to empire and in resistance to it. Reading Revelation as Western Christians have over the past 150 years, as a book predicting the end of the world, leads us away from the book's original intention. Let's start over:
May your hearts and imaginations be revived, made more resilient and ever more focused on the needs of the world that surrounds us. Let us stop at nothing to make space for others and amplify the voices of those who the powers and principalities wish to silence. And in the end, may you find that you have already, always, been on the inside of the multitude, surrounding the lamb of God. |
Contributor Bio(s): Daniels, C. Wess: - C. Wess Daniels is the William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. He has a Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary in the School of Intercultural Studies on the subject of the renewal of faith traditions within participatory culture. |