Revelations Books

In a disciplined and inspired work of analysis, Barnwell has made connections that reveal the mysteries of the Book of Revelations. His intensive study of ancient symbolism, coupled with spiritual devotion and prayerful inquiry, allowed him to stitch together the patchwork of images into a powerful and cohesive message. Seekers of every faith will find information in this book on the rare process of transformation we are exhorted to accomplish in the Book of Revelations. It ain't about the end of the world, folks. It's an inside job. But you knew that....

Mr. Barnwell captured the meaning of life in its essence towards spirituality. Some of the statements and sentences needs to be more simplified like the Bible of different translations. I believe there's a lot to be absorbed from this book. I wish there were enumerated suggestions for the souls (besides prayers), from this book instead of insights.

The Most Holy Trinosophia And The New Revelation Of The Divine Feminine proposes that after two thousand years of traditional Christianity, Western civilization ready to acknowledge and embrace the "divine feminine". Co-founder of the Sophia Foundation of North America Robert Powell carefully guides the readers through a maze of concepts about the "world soul", Sophia as a "Trinity of Mother Daughter, and Holy Soul"; and the feminine aspect of the Divine Godhead. The produce of years of extensive, meticulous research, Powell draws upon the teachings of the Sophianic Russian philosopher Pavel Florensky and the work of the modern Russian mystic Daniel Andreev to inculcate a deeper understanding of the notion of divine feminine and its potential for social change in the modern world. The Most Holy Trinosophia is an impressive, invaluable, and very welcome contribution to the study of religion, metaphysics, and spirituality.

An excellent book for non-informative readers who are unaware of the Sophia/Divine Feminine. The book is an easy read and comprehensive. Gives a short historical background for those out there who only know what they are taught in Sunday school. Powell ties it altogether neatly.
Highly reccommended for those that want to investigate how the other half of the world views life and/or christianity from the beginning and the influences of christianity that were left out of the doctrine and teachings in the modern world.

What a wonderful book. The Mystical Keys to the Book of Revelation touched me very deeply. I instinctively seemed to know that what the author has written is the truth. For the parts of the Book of Revelation that I already had some knowledge of, it gave me a deeper understanding; for the parts where I was confused, it cleared the blocks. This book also reminded me (again) of the importance of working against one's own ego, as well as of practicing self-observation and meditation. This is an instrumental book for all seeking understanding and guidance as we enter into this exciting and interesting period.

What a wonderful book. The Mystical Keys to the Book of Revelation touched me very deeply. I instinctively seemed to know that what the author has written is the truth. For the parts of the Book of Revelation that I already had some knowledge of, it gave me a deeper understanding; for the parts where I was confused, it cleared the blocks. This book also reminded me (again) of the importance of working against one's own ego, as well as of practicing self-observation and meditation. This is an instrumental book for all seeking understanding and guidance as we enter into this exciting and interesting period.

The Book of Revelation is an enigma to most people due to its heavy use of symbolism. I have studied it over the years and have learned little by little using the writings of Joseph Smith and the Doctrine and Covenants as resources to help in the interpretation. I even read McConkie's New Testament Commentary and that also helped. Draper's book has been the biggest help to date in my understanding of this scripture. He is a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University and uses his knowledge of Greek and symbolism to clarify a lot of what was still confusing to me in the past.

The book goes through the entire Book of Revelation verse by verse and explains the meaning in easy to understand language. He uses as resources the Doctrine and Covenants, the Joseph Smith translation of the Bible, other prophetic books in the Old and New Testaments, other Commentaries of Joseph Smith, commentaries of various LDS and non-LDS scholars, and his knowledge of the Greek language. Where there are conflicting opinions, he points these out. His discussions on symbolism were the most helpful to me. Overall I really enjoyed the book and gained new insights.

I highly recommend this book for those wanting to gain a greater understanding of the Book of Revelation, especially from an LDS perspective. For non-LDS this book will provide a good summary of what LDS scripture adds to the understanding of the Apocalypse of John.

Very well written analysis of the Book of Revelation. It goes through each verse of the book, and provides thought-provoking insight into Revelation's symbolism and imagery. It also is the first book I've read that gives a plausible sequence of events leading up to the Return of Christ. The author is a Professor of Ancient Religion at Brigham Young University. Although written from an LDS perspective, it is well documented from many non-LDS sources as well, and is highly recommended for anyone who wants to comprehend more of the Apocalypse and the Last Days.

The previous negative review of this book is way off base. This is a superb piece of scholarship ably dealing with high-level philosophy to provide an astute contextualizing intellectual history of not just Levinas, but also of some of the key philosophical debates in 20th-century continental thought which contributed to the formulation of "the Other" as a concept.

Prof. Moyn is assiduously reasonable and even-handed throughout. He's a model scholar who keeps a critical distance and is not out to wage a vendetta and dishonestly forward an agenda. (Maybe that just riles some people who comes to the book with strong allegiances to Levinas or other related thinkers.)

And given the difficulty and often impenetrable-ness of many of these continental thinkers' idiom, Moyn's writing is admirably lucid, readable, and free of windiness. He's not out to intimidate the reader and discourage understanding. So, in its own way, even as it asserts its place as a pathbreaking addition to scholarship in intellectual history, it can also stand, somewhat, as a primer for those looking to understand the ideas and historical import of 20th-century continental thought.

As an historian of ideas who wrote a doctoral disseration in 1968 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison on "Ideas of Individualism: A Twentieth Century Social Critique," the author's study of the idea of otherness is truly brilliant. While the history of ideas is more philosophical in its orientation, analysizing an idea's interior content, intellectual history is more sociological in its orientation, identifying an idea's exterior context. From both of these perspectives, Samuel Moyn's study of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas is a remarkable achievement.

As intellectual history, the "Origins of the Other" deals not only with the historical milieu in which Levinas found himself, but also with how others were responding to this same milieu. Since ideas do not emerge in an historical vacuum, in dealing with these others, this volume readily becomes a history of philosophical presuppositions through time. For the present, conceived in the past, is pregnant with the future.

As a history of the interior content of an idea of the "other," this otherness has several dimensions, two of which I note. Its most primary dimension involves what I call the primacy of individuality or sociality. Although in my dissertation I employ a mode of analysis and synthesis that is doubly dialectical, individuality and sociality nurturing one another as well is being an impediment, more recently I have realized that we are one-anothered into existence through parents who themselves represent the vast genetic pool of not only the human species, but indeed the humus of our earth and the stardust of our universe. Thus, one-anothered into existence, we never cease one-anothering one another into the fullness of our humanity.

The other dimension to be noted is a relationship between our humanity and what we call divinity, in other words, between the sacrality and secularity of our lives. It is at this point that the subtitle of Moyn's prophetic study becomes most relevant, "Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics."

Presently many forms of religious fundamentalism have arisen to challenge the brutalizing secular fundamentalism of a globalized market. For decades it has been my conviction that this secularity has triumphed by default, the by-product of a myopic sacrality that has forsaken an holistic vision of our humanity for-the-sake of an idolartrous ritual.

As Moyn argues im the 268 pages of his study, Levinas struggled mightly to bring us to this threshold, the ethics of how we otherize one another, that we do so otherwise than through the violence of our lives.

I want to clarify that the second review on the page is the author's (i.e. my own) review. Thus I did not "star" the book. I think that would be inappropriate. However, I'd ask you not to count the "no stars" in my author's review in your average rating of the book. The first reviewer gave it four or five stars and that ought to be listed as the correct rating.

Author's question: why is this book currently not available? I believe de Gruyter (New York and Berlin) should have plenty more in stock and would be glad to sell it to you. I'd like for my book to be available to the public--especially since it contains the gem of the full text of the 1913 Systematic Theology of Paul Tillich in its first English translation!

Paul Tillich was one of the more philosophically informed Christian theologians, whose work embodied a sophisticated paradoxality and dialectal rigor. Uwe Carsten Scharf study of Tillich offers a searching study of central movements of Tillich's thought, the clarification of Tillich's concepts of paradox and breakthrough as they illustrate the divine-human interplay of revelation in ontological-metaphorical language. Scharf advances the thesis that the two concepts embody a central tension in his thinking about revelation. The interrelationship of paradox and breakthrough is suggested as each breakthrough happens as a paradoxical event, and that each paradox, then needs to breakthrough to the recipient of revelation. These parallel ideas are constructed upon the base that paradox is not contradiction, and breakthrough is not a breaking apart; so that they are related to a unitive or transcendental reason in the following way. A paradox does not destroy reason but upsets and surprises it. Paradox startles reason. It expresses not contradiction but tension between two elements, or poles, which are affirmed simultaneously, even though they look contradictory. The two poles are also simultaneously negated. The real paradox therefore consists in this tension that there is neither a yes for one pole and a no for the other. Breakthrough likewise then is not a disintegration of insight but open to affirming in the karios, the event of Transcendence that is otherwise than self or expectation. The thesis this study can be broken down into three movements: 1. Tillich expresses his understanding of revelation through the core concepts of paradox and breakthrough. 2. A connection of meaning between the two concepts can be discerned in their usage, and 3. Tillich uses both concepts to distinguish his understanding of revelation from the extremes of naturalism, or idealism, and supranaturalism. The structure of this dialetetic is close to middle way thought of Buddhism though such comparative insights are not considered in this study. Rather Scharf develops this as a historical investigation, advancing a second thesis that Tillich does well in choosing these concepts, for they seem to capture the experience of being approached by the dimension of the ultimate in appropriate and intelligible image-concepts. Paradox and breakthrough approximate the dynamics and form of the unspeakable divine-human encounter (revelation) by using conceptual-symbolic imagery of structure (paradox) and of event (breakthrough). The autobiographical aspect of this study is that Scharf provides the first provisional translation of Tillich's "Systematische Theologie" of 1913. This was his earliest known attempt to give system to his thought. The polarity between paradox and breakthrough are seen to be central to his earliest and most mature expressions of his thinking. Few theologians should ignore this consummate exploration of the pivotal tensions in Tillich's thought.

Yes, that's right. This book is one of those sleepers by a 21st century megagenius that, like a few other megageniuses, won't be recognized as such until the rest of the world catches up with him. But he's planning on it... Laffoley thinks that this next century will be a time of evolutionary unfolding that will be as much a jump as the Renaissance was, and, again, he's making a very good case for it in this book. He's calling our new Millennium the beginning of the "Bauhauroque," an elision of the Baroque and the Bauhaus... Let Paul fill in the rest.

Paul Laffoley is a painter, by the way, and his images, reproduced in a good number of color plates in this book, give a very graphic expression to the phenomenology of revelation. This is a seminal book, and a very great value for the price. Just consider how much a first edition of, say, James Joyce's Ulysses might bring... And all you have to do is wait...

This book is, without competition, the greatest work I have ever read. Laffoley, through his artworks and inspiring text manages to lead the reader into a higher dimensional realm..

Talk about mind expanding literature!!

(i haven't read this book but was helped by reading this note, which i pass along...i gave 5 stars because i had to give some rating and gave it with the benefit of the doubt...

In This New Interpretation of the "Book of Revelation", Jacques M. Chevalier examines the relationship between astromythology, the Text, and Western interpretation. While scholars have noted the influence of ancient astromythology in Revelation before, Chevalier shows how John's heavenly imagery is the key to a polemical dialogue between two modes of storytelling in Western history: astrology and eschatology, or naturalism and logocentrism. The book also explains how the 'genealogical' concerns of modern academia about the origins of natural and cultural history have supplanted the future-oriented visions of sidereal divination and Christian prophecy. The first three chapters and Epilogue of the book situate Chevalier's biblical analysis in the context of broader interpretations of astrology and the apocalypse developed by Jung, Lawrence, Levi-Strauss, Derrida, Foucault, Cassirer, Adorno, Frye, Barthes, and Morin. They also provide the reader with a solid background in the history of astrological belief systems and exegetic readings of Revelation extending from antiquity to the late twentieth-century. The remaining chapters are devoted to two questions. First, what precise relationship does the imagery in Revelation entertain with expressions of astromythology? Second, how do twentieth-century readings of Revelation reflect a 'genealogical' perspective on notions of signs, textuality, and destiny? A Postmodern Revelation is itself an 'apocalypse, ' a revelation to scholars interested in sign theory, eschatology, and the history of astrology. The book does far more than interpret the specific biblical text of John's Revelation: it plays with polemics and parallels in the history ofWestern thought, tracing the history of signs and their meaning from antiquity to a postmodern era that heralds the end of all myths of the End. 'Jacques Chevalier's (book) is a brilliant transdisciplinary interpretation of the Book of Revelation in the light of ancient astromythicism on one hand and contemporary semiotics on the other. It will be of serious interest to specialists and general readers alike who are interested in the New Testament, the history of religions, ancient and modern biblical studies, and the historical and sociological meaning of contemporary astrology.' -- Robert Polzin, School of Comparative Literature, Carleton University This poststructural analysis shows that the use of ancient astromythological images in the Book of Revelation reflects a polemical dialogue between two modes of storytelling in Western history: astrology and eschatology, or naturalism and logocentrism. The book also explains how the 'genealogical' concerns of modern academia about the origins of natural and cultural history have supplanted the future-oriented visions of sidereal divination and Christian prophecy.

This book attempts an exegesis of The Book of Revelations from the perspective of postmodernity. The book considers the three interpretive modes of anagogy, teleology, and geneaology, which have been used by exegetes of the Book of Revelations. Anagogy views the text as a work expressing timeless propositions of the Christian spirit. Teleology views the text as a genuine prophecy of things to come. And, the geneaological perspective traces the lines of descent in the text from their original sources. The author examines the history of each of these interpretive modes, and then turns to the Book of Revelations itself to provide his own exegesis. The author uncovers the hidden astrological underpinning of the Book of Revelations, and shows how John wrote the book as a reply to astrology from the Christian perspective. The book concludes with a discussion of Revelations in light of Jung's "Answer to Job". Overall, this is an excellent introduction to the Book of Revelations, and its interpretors.

His [Daniel's] prophecy is, in many respects, the most remarkable of any in the sacred record. It is the most comprehensive. It was the first prophecy giving a consecutive history of the world from that time to the end. It located the most of its predictions within well-defined prophetic periods, though reaching many centuries into the future. It gave the first definite chronological prophecy of the coming of the Messiah. It marksd the time of this event so definitely that the Jews forbid any attempt to interpret its numbers, since that prophecy shows them to be without excuse in rejecting Christ; and so accurately had its minute and literal predictions been fufilled down to the time of Porphyry, A.D. 250, that he declared (the only loophole he could devise for his hard-pressed skeptisism) that the predictions were not written in the age of Babylon, but after the events themselves had occurred. This evasion, however, is not now available; for every succeeding century has borne additional evidence to the truthfulness of the prophecy, and we are just now, in our own day, approaching the climax of its fulfillment.
--- excerpt from book's introduction

I have gone through this book twice in my studies of the prophetic books of Daniel and Revelation. In my estimation it is the best book on the subject in or out of print. The book goes verse by verse, giving clear commentry, and is easy to understand.

This book by Hal Lindsey is beautifully presented. It details some of the most important sites in the Holy Land appealing to the Christian reader. It is Scripturally correct and will inspire readers to make the trip to The Holy Land. It is really an awesome pictorial account of The Land of God's Chosen people. I recommend it to all who love God's Chosen. I also recommend it to skeptics who would be unbiased enough to explore the truth.

I was so impressed when i read this book ,Iwent out and bought four more books just to give to family ,It has not only beautiful pictures of the holy land ,but it has some wonderful maps ,whare the final battle takes place .hal illustrates how the kingodoms will enter meggado,To fight the last battle ,This is my most treasured book. marge