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In Revelation Joseph Mangina offers a constructive ecclesiology for the role and mission of the church in the twenty-first century formed by a close examination of Revelation. Examining the necessary cultural, theological and exegetical issues, Mangina makes a compelling case that Revelation is a book that speaks profoundly to the church’s mission in the twenty-first century, and that it would do...

Judith Kovacs and Christopher Rowland aptly name this approach to reading the Apocalypse “decoding” interpretation. Its goal is to discern what the text really means behind the veil of its figures. They contrast it with “actualizing” interpretations that enact or perform Revelation “in relation to new circumstances, seeking to convey the spirit of the text rather than being preoccupied with the plethora of detail” (2004: 8). They suggest that any given reading of the book will fall somewhere between
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