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Silence and praise

Hansen, Ryan Leif,

Silence and praise rhetorical cosmology and political theology in the Book of Revelation / [electronic resource] : Ryan Leif Hansen. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014 Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (1 PDF (vii, 184 pages).) - Emerging scholars . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Emerging scholars. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, 2012. Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- "The apocalyptic technique" : how John's apocalypse makes meaning -- The war of worldcraft : John's cosmic rhetoric against Roman imperial cult discourse -- The three cycles of seven as object of interpretation -- Silence : the prayerful endurance and non-participation of the saints -- Praise : narrating the emergence of God's reign and the new creation -- Silence and praise : economic non-participation and narrating the new creation -- Toward an apocalyptic political theology -- Bibliography -- Index of subjects and names.

9781451484427 1451484429


Bible.--Revelation--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Political theology.
Cosmology.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

BS2825.52 / .H367 2014

228.06