We live in challenging times. There is overwhelming evidence that massive change is required in order to survive impending environmental collapse. Yet this fifth volume in the Archifutures series takes the position that the “apocalypse” is not an imminent event, but an insidious process that is already happening. Communities everywhere are facing it on a day-to-day basis. Many are already resisting and adapting. Despite the implied drama of the word “apocalypse”, the reality is actually far more mundane: surviving it is not about building bunkers, it is about building resilience – everywhere and in all kinds of ways.
The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions.
The book traces the tradition of apocalyptic writing through the Middle Ages, when Jews and Christians continued to record apocalypses and developed related forms of literature.
This edition also comes with a new foreword by Jacob Marques Rollison who provides an essential aid for guiding readers through Ellul’s thorough engagement with Revelation.
He and Robin Bisland, Bob Burkholder, Jim Caiella, Peter Cole, Rachel Cole, Patrick Collier, Wes Goodwin, Richard Latture, Paul Merzlak, Brian Rehill, Fred Schultz, Sam Fitzsimmons, Virginia Smith, Jack Thornton, Bob Timberg, ...
While Sergeant "Goose" Gander and the men of the 75th Army Rangers fight a battle on the Turkish-Syrian border, his wife, Megan, struggles to save one family even as she fears for her own.
“ Second , the saint allowed his readers to conclude that " spiritual " millennialism might be less reprehensible than its materialistic alternative . Early in his discussion of Apocalypse 20 , Augustine stated that belief in a coming ...
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The Book of Revelation's legacy of visual imagery is evaluated here, from the 11th century to the end of World War 2 illuminated manuscripts, books, prints and drawings of apocalyptic phases are examined.
Indeed , despite its title , Coppola's film is motivated less by an apocalyptic vision than by an entropic one , chronicling as it does the paranoid tendency to build mental structures with which to surround and isolate the terrified ...
Collins also examines several specific examples to show the themes and variation present in the genre. Organized in five sections, these thematic essays complement and enrich Collinss well-known bookThe Apocalyptic Imagination.