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...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
Journals Online & Print: | |
Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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)
|
Further subjects: | B
Book review
|
Online Access: |
Volltext (JSTOR) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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 |