TY - BOOK AU - Hansen,Ryan Leif ED - Project Muse, ED - Project Muse. TI - Silence and praise: rhetorical cosmology and political theology in the Book of Revelation T2 - Emerging scholars SN - 9781451484427 AV - BS2825.52 .H367 2014 U1 - 228.06 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Baltimore, Maryland PB - Project Muse KW - Bible KW - Revelation KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Political theology KW - Cosmology KW - Electronic books KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781451484427/ ER -