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Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Reading Revelation Responsibly is for those who are confused by, afraid of, and/or preoccupied with the book of Revelation. In rescuing the Apocalypse from those who either completely misinterpret it or completely ignore it, Michael J. Gorman has given us both a guide to reading Revelation and a theological engagement with the text itself. He takes interpreting the book as a serious and sacred...

“Any society whom Babylon’s cap fits must wear it.”7 Thus Revelation is also a critique of all idolatries and injustices similar to those of Rome, throughout history and into the present. The term “liturgy,” or the public service of a people, has to do with worship. Worship, a word derived from Old English that means “worth-ship,” or worthiness, can be defined as acknowledging the worthiness of God, and God alone, especially as creator and redeemer.
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