by Francis J. Moloney (Author)
The Book of Revelation is the most challenging book in the New Testament. It has been part of the Christian Bible from the earliest times. It has been violently interpreted and has puzzled believers from the earliest decades of the Christian Church. It is traditionally read as a series of hostile symbolic narratives that describe what will happen at the end of time. This Friendly Guide questions that tradition. As part of a "new look" in Revelation studies, Professor Moloney insists that John of Patmos has used Jewish end-time language to speak of the never-ending presence of the forces of evil in the world, and the victory of God over those forces in and through the death and resurrection of Jesus. It is a book that instructs Christians where they should place their trust in troubled times.