I plan on reading this book: The Theology Of The Book Of Revelation by Richard Bauckham. I’ll let you know how that goes, since this is a blog, and that’s what we do with blogs. Here’s the Table of Contents:
1.Reading the Book of Revelation 1
2. The One who is and who was and who is to come 23
3. The Lamb on the throne 54
4. The victory of the Lamb and his followers 66
5. The Spirit of prophecy 109
6. The New Jerusalem 126
7. Revelation for today 144
This is a book in the Bible that always has, and will intrigue me. My former years as a dispensationalist had me reading this book one way; my latter years, relatively speaking of course, have me reading Revelation another way (primarily as Christian Apocalyptic literature). My views have shifted from an premil dispy to an “historic premil” person. I sense that Bauckham’s insights will be more amenable with my newer persuasion versus my older one (I am positive that Bauckham is amil, but historic premil can read Revelation just like an amil until we get to chapters 19 & 20). Anyway, I look forward to reading this book. One of the pluses of this book is that it is relatively short; I always like relatively short books!
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Interested in hearing your thoughts Bobby. I read this earlier in the year and enjoyed it immensely (of course, I tend to agree with Bauckham’s position). I was so impressed with the book, that I’ve thought about picking up others in the series.
Look forward to the read, Brian. Thanks for the encouragement! He is amil, right?
Well, I guess that is how you would classify him. He does not take the millennium to be a literal 1000 years. He is (for lack of a better label) a partial preterist; all except the end of the Revelation was fulfilled in the early church.
Yeah, that sounds pretty idealist to me; or what Howard Hendricks called following a progressive parallel model. Thanks. I’m just getting into it now, it’s good!