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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...

a resisting of death by invoking the power of love—“We must love one another or die,” as W. H. Auden put it in his great poem “September 1, 1939.” Yet in the absence of the God of Daniel and of Revelation it is deeply questionable whether our love can save us.4 5:5–6 John’s tears, then, hold out the profoundly Jewish hope for a Messiah who will right wrongs, execute justice for the oppressed, and overcome the slaughterhouse that is human history. These tears are answered: “And one of the elders said
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