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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Main Author: Downing, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2012
In: 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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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.
ISSN:1477-4607
Contains:Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jts/fls124