“The device of the seven messages enables John to engage appropriately with seven different contexts in which his book would be read and also to integrate those contexts into the broader perspective of the rest of the book, in which… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“Once we have fully recognized the specificity of the seven messages to the churches, it is possible to ask whether John also envisaged other readers. Why does he write to seven churches? These were by no means the only Christian… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“Theological meaning is thus written into the detail of John’s meticulous literary composition.” — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“Thus Revelation seems to be an apocalyptic prophecy in the form of a circular letter to seven churches in the Roman province of Asia.” — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“A second important sense in which Revelation stands in the tradition of the Jewish apocalypses is that it shares the question which concerned so… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“Misinterpretations of Revelation often begin by misconceiving the kind of book it is.” — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“Perhaps enough has been said to indicate that the imagery of Revelation requires close and appropriate study if modern readers are to grasp much… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“The Old Testament allusions frequently presuppose their Old Testament context and a range of connexions between Old Testament texts which are not made explicit… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“The range of different situations in these seven churches is sufficient for any Christian church in the late first century to find analogies to… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“[Jesus'] resurrection is therefore God's promise of new creation for the whole of the godforsaken reality which the crucified Jesus represents. It is therefore… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“It seems that John not only writes in the tradition of the Old Testament prophets, but understands himself to be writing at the climax… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“False worship, such as John portrays in the worship of the beast, is false precisely because its object is not the transcendent mystery, but… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“The point is not to predict a sequence of events. The point is to evoke and to explore the meaning of the divine judgment… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“The whole of Revelation could be regarded as a vision of the fulfilment of the first three petitions of the Lord’s Prayer: ‘Your name… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
![“[Jesus'] resurrection is therefore God's promise of new creation for the whole of the godforsaken reality which the crucified Jesus represents. It is therefore an event of dialectical promise: it opens up a qualitatively new future, which negates all the negatives of present experience. It opens…” quote by Richard Bauckham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc1/richard-bauckham-18561_hope_jesus-resurrection-is-therefore-god-s-pr_566748.jpg)
