Again Quote by Elaine Pagels

“In the first place, John’s work is a prophetic apocalypse in that it communicates a disclosure of a transcendent perspective on this world.”

— Richard Bauckham

“John, who was transformed into a passionate lover of God, had lost everything he knew in order to come into that which he did…

— James W. Goll

“Like Jonah’s word, Revelation as prophecy seeks mainly to stimulate faithful response among John’s audience, not to provide an absolute blueprint for an uncertain…

— David A. Desilva

“Revelation is a literary work composed with astonishing care and skill. We should certainly not doubt that John had remarkable visionary experiences, but he…

— Richard Bauckham

“I know that a stranger's hand will write to me next, to say that the good and faithful servant has been called at length…

— Charlotte Brontë

REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who…

— Ambrose Bierce

“At the end, he insists in both cases on secrecy. He’s reached the point where it’s vital that word doesn’t leak out. If his…

— N.T. Wright

Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long read in the Gospels of Mark and John that Jesus knew…

— Elaine Pagels

“We have sought to read Revelation less as a coded text to be interpreted, and more as a text that imposed a Christ-centered interpretation…

— David A. Desilva

“Love, its power and authority, always gets there first, comes to believe first, and always waits for the others, especially the leaders, to catch…

— Megan McKenna

In the opening chapters of the Book of Revelation the Apostle John tells us how on the Isle of Patmos he was given an…

— Roy Hession

“It is clear that John saw himself, not only as one of the Christian prophets, but also as standing in the tradition of Old…

— Richard Bauckham