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Revelation: A Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition is unavailable, but you can change that!

Throughout its history, Revelation has suffered misinterpretations from allegory to literal manipulations, including the development of spectacular end-time scenarios. These caricatures of Revelation fail to grasp its foundational theology, reassuring promises, hopeful evangelism, and especially its pastoral nature.

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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