Books Quote by Eugene Peterson

“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

“The lesson I have learned is that a failure to cultivate the imagination leads to an unintended neglect of the imaginative literature of Scripture,…

— Tony Reinke

“Go and tell," I whispered to him. There was little voice left in me, but I whispered it firmly. Then I took the Gospel…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A grounded and responsible reading of Revelation begins with reading it first as we would read Paul’s Letters to the Galatians or Philippians or…

— David A. Desilva

I've read the Book of Revelation a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.

— Megan Fox

There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New…

— Elaine Pagels

“One final reason to study Revelation is that it’s the only book of the Bible that contains a special blessing for those who read…

— Mark Hitchcock

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

“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

Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic…

— Elaine Pagels

“The method and conceptuality of the theology of Revelation are relatively different from the rest of the New Testament, but once they are appreciated…

— Richard Bauckham

“But if you take time to savor the words you will read in your Bible, lingering over them, enjoying them, and really tasting them,…

— Debbie Alsdorf