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The Streets of Heaven: The Ideology of Wealth in the Apocalypse of John

By Jr. , Robert M. Royalty

Book information

Publisher
Mercer University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
0865546096
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (23918252 bytes)
Pages
\302
Time added
2023-06-26 12:29:53

Description

This new reading of the Book of Revelation provides a confident challenge to the current range of options for the interpretation of the Apocalypse. Robert Royalty’s two distinctive positions are as follows: first, that Revelation is critical of the conceptions of wealth in the Graeco-Roman world of John’s day, but that the author merely substitutes them with a different kind of ideology which contains no justice either. Secondly, this is the result not of persecution from Rome or even from the synagogues, but arises principally out of a power struggle within early Christianity in which John is trying to persuade his audience of his own authority and that of his circle of prophets.

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