The Conversion of the Nations in Revelation. By Allan J. McNicol
This monograph aims to solve a key problem in Revelation’s treatment of ‘the nations’: how can the author welcome the nations into the New Jerusalem (21:24–6, 22:2) after he presents their hostility to the Lamb’s followers and their apparent destruction earlier in the text (19:15)? McNicol’s solutio...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2012
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 690-692 |
| Review of: | The conversion of the nations in Revelation (London [u.a.] : T & T Clark, 2011) (Downing, Jonathan)
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| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | This monograph aims to solve a key problem in Revelation’s treatment of ‘the nations’: how can the author welcome the nations into the New Jerusalem (21:24–6, 22:2) after he presents their hostility to the Lamb’s followers and their apparent destruction earlier in the text (19:15)? McNicol’s solution to this problem balances a careful analysis of material in the Apocalypse concerning ‘the nations’ while trying to evoke John’s ‘pastoral’ concerns vis-à-vis the churches he is addressing., McNicol’s fundamental argument is that there is a coherency in John’s discussion of the nations’ destiny which is revealed through a consideration of his overall eschatological plan. His argument begins with a critique of rival explanations of this theme in Revelation by Richard Bauckham and J. P. M. Sweet. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fls124 |
