generation until the return of Christ. The visions and auditions experienced by John, reflected upon, and written down in a complex literary work designed for oral presentation offer important spiritual insights. The book is theocentric with a high Christology that emphasizes the atonement and the risen Christ’s relationship with the church. Theological issues such as sovereignty and soteriology are centered in an eschatological perspective that draws us to a future with hope but grounds us in the
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