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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...

faculty that permits us to control the world in godlike fashion. But perhaps vision is not quite as sovereign as we like to think. Ein Bild hielt uns gefangen, wrote Wittgenstein; “a picture held us captive.”1 We must allow for the possibility that the Apocalypse subverts our confidence in our capacity to dominate the world by making representations of it. So instead of reading the book in the usual way, perhaps we should begin by hearing it. Let us engage in a brief thought experiment. 1:1 We are
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