The Humility and Glory of the Lamb: Toward a Robust Apocalyptic Christology

The Humility and Glory of the Lamb: Toward a Robust Apocalyptic Christology
ISBN-10
1532651120
ISBN-13
9781532651120
Category
Religion
Pages
174
Language
English
Published
2018-09-13
Publisher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Author
Jeffrey R. Dickson

Description

Although the Apostle John endorses "Lamb" twenty-nine times in his Apocalypse and employs a term that is used only one other time in the New Testament to this end, this unique title and its sophisticated christological implications has only received cursory attention both historically and more recently. Even then, incomplete/monochromatic interpretations of the unique verbiage John employs to describe Christ are reached. After identifying this clearing that exists in the christological forest, this book reaches a robust understanding of Revelation's Lamb by means of a contextual-grammatical-canonical-historical hermeneutic. Ultimately, this monograph concludes that the apostle's use of Lamb throughout his Apocalypse promotes a multifaceted christological presentation of John's protagonist that is dependent on the paradoxical theme of glory in humility--a theme that is introduced when the Lamb first emerges in Revelation 5 and is then reiterated every time the title is used thereafter. In so doing, this work offers students and scholars alike a better understanding of who is coming in the end and what this means for the church at present.

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