Books Quote by Richard Bauckham Download Open image ““Misinterpretations of Revelation often begin by misconceiving the kind of book it is.”” — Richard Bauckham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“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 bottom line is this: Don’t be afraid of or intimidated by Revelation. God wants you to understand and apply the truth of this… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“It is a contradiction in terms and ideas, to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second-hand, either verbally or in writing.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I've read the Book of Revelation a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded. — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Whenever that tiny bulb of revelation flashes over your head, it almost always follows a period of uncertainty. These periods are usually dark and… — Nichole Beamer Copy Share Image
“A second formal, literary difference between Revelation and the Jewish apocalypses is that, unlike the latter, Revelation is not pseudepigraphal.” — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“The words of revelation can only be understood by those who are open-minded and pure-hearted.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“While it is certainly true that Revelation looks ahead and reveals the future, it also looks back and brings together all the threads running… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“Revelation has a great deal to say about angels and demons. In fact, it talks about angels more than any other Bible book.” — Mark Hitchcock 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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image