Books Quote by Richard Bauckham

“On the other hand, there is apocalyptic literature, which appears to be continuous with classical prophecy yet to be a particular outgrowth of it.…

— R.W.L. Moberly

“Apocalyptic literature was created to speak in a powerful way and with a dramatic seriousness that would match the sense of hopelessness and terror…

— William J. Abraham

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the…

— Northrop Frye

“Apocalypse is a part of the modern Absurd. This is testimony to its vitality, a vitality dependent upon its truth to the set of…

— Frank Kermode

“We may still ask in what sense Revelation belongs to the genre of ancient religious literature we call the apocalypse. J. J. Collins defines…

— Richard Bauckham

“The great majority of interpretations of Apocalypse assume that the End is pretty near. Consequently the historical allegory is always having to be revised;…

— Frank Kermode

“Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an ‘apocalypse of Nature,’ a revealing of the ‘open secret.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“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

“A second formal, literary difference between Revelation and the Jewish apocalypses is that, unlike the latter, Revelation is not pseudepigraphal.”

— Richard Bauckham

“Prophecy is a tricky thing, I have learned, full of edges and secret meanings and mischief. Prophecy can feel like the betrayal of a…

— Rae Carson

“When we hear prophecy, we may not and must not treat it with cool detachment; prophecy isn’t a matter for our appraisal but for…

— John Webster

“When authors claim new revelations dealing with apocalyptic themes, book sales increase.  Christians who chase after the sensational constantly look for keys to unlock…

— Stan Newton