Revelations Books

The book tried to remind christians of seven letters in the book of Revelation given by the Lord Jesus. Those seven letters were not only addressed to seven churches mentioned in Revelation but also to those who have ears to hear in the last days. The book explained the reason why the Lord Jesus had to write seven letters after His ascension, why He chose those seven churches as His lamp-stand, and where those churches would finally go. As a seeking christian, you have to read the book in order to know where you should go in your christian/church life. May the Lord grant every seeking one an ear to hear His word in this last age.

An excellent, eye-opening read! A must for anyone seriously desiring to understand the prophetic language of the Bible!

The author, Swami Premananda, was a close disciple of the famed Paramahansa Yogananda, the author of "Autobiography of a Yogi". Premananda was a very capable translator of many sanskrit texts. This version of the Dhammapada is easy to understand for the english reader and makes an excellent study book for learning about this important Buddhist text.

I have used Mark Link's texts in classrooms for 7th to 9th grade students for many years. In addition, I have found them helpful as an introduction to scriptures for adults in a parish setting, though I have used the information without the actual text because the text is clearly intended for young people. One of the book's greatest assets is the wide range of high quality illustrations, which are difficult to find for texts apropriate for students of this age. Nothing is overly simplified or "kidified" -- indeed, the archaeological and historical photographs and examples are challenging and truly interesting to students. They never feel as if they are being talked down to with this book. The major plus with this text, though, is its theology. So often beginning texts simplify scripture, especially the Hebrew Scriptures, so that later undertaking of a more serious study must first unlearn previous misinformation. This is not a problem with this text. Mark Link displays an unusually sensitive attitude toward the Hebrew Scriptures, and does not relegate their importance to having only Christological significance. His explanation of prophecy and of the use of the Hebrew Scriptures by later Christian authors is unparalleled in other books at this level. Similarly, his presentation of Apocalyptic literature is much better than beginning texts I have reviewed. The 1987 version (Path Through Scripture: From Genesis to Revelation) is definitely superior to the "New Interactive Edition" by the same title. This newer edition has been watered down, in my opinion, and much excellent scholarship and appeal to students is lost in the process. Use this text with confidence and enjoy it.

This book is great! It helped me to be able to feel the spirit. I once had a hard time feeling like my prayers were never answered or not understanding my feelings and getting confused. This book helped me to understand my feelings and to know how to "feel" Heavenly Fathers answers to our prayers. This book is full of great stories that are very touching and interesting and fun all chucked into one book! I would recomend this book to anyone and everyone!

In this work Jaspers sets forth what might today be called his philosophical theology. An existentialist and Kantian, Jaspers argues that true and pure metaphysical knowledge into the ground of Being (which he calls Transcendence) in an unmediated and rational manner is impossible. Nevertheless, there is a 'way' or 'path' to Transcendence which Jaspers believes is lit up by 'ciphers' (a sort of symbolic language expressed by the concepts and ideas of the metaphysical systems of great philosophers) which are 'illuminated' when the concrete individual's conciousness of their existence is truely awakened by the mystery of their existence.

Jasper's philosophical theology draws on a variety of sources, and he shows a strong admiration for the Buddhist refusal to speak about what is unspeakable, yet at the same time the attempt to reach Transcendence. Jaspers uses the Buddhist temple at Borobodour in the Indonesian island of Java to try and illuminate the human quest to reach their ground of Being. One also senses in his philosophy there is a tension in Jaspers, expressed by the influence of Nietzsche, of the need to avoid religious nihilism which denies the value of this life and this world, and the influence of Kierkegaard and Kant, where the unknowable Absolute, while beyond our speculative reason, still has a mysterious attraction to us and irrestiably draws us to it. Jaspers doesn't seem to make up his mind whether it is a good thing ultimately to seek Transcendence at the cost of losing our individuality, and seems quite ambivalent towards it at many points, sometimes seeming to believe it is the ultimate and final goal of all philosophical questioning, and at other times seeing it as something we can't achieve without losing our humanity.

For some readers, Jasper's refusal to believe the Godhead can be known and talked about (especially theologians) and his agnosticism about divine revelation in a true sense will be frustrating, while for others, his refusal to take the project of Kant to its logical end and reject metaphysics as fruitless and pointless to engage in, will be equally frustrating. Perhaps what might also irritate the analytical philosopher is Jasper's sometimes imprecise use of language and concepts, and his rejection of the powerful work by people such as Russell, Frege and the positivist school. Even so, Jasper's philosophical theology remains interesting, even if not in the end totally convincing.

This is a simple and bold restatement of the relationship between faith and reason. The main enemy of this book and rightly so is Heidegger. And here Possenti is at his best. He makes mincemeat out of Heidegger.

This book should be distributed by bishops throughout North America and should be memorized by seminary students. It is simply that good.

That this book was not translated and published by a Catholic Press is a scandal. Maybe they will take their cue from this book and give us more works by Possenti. And at the same time they should undertake the translation of the works of Del Noce and Fabro, two italian giants who are virtually unknown here in North America. And from France, Tresmontant and Thibon.

Catholics need to know what their faith is about. They need to be able to protect themselves from Heideggerian Catholics and aging brats like Gary Wills and Hans Kung.

This is undoubtedly one of the best books I have ever read. It contains the Stone Lectures delivered by Dr. Bavinck at Princeton Seminary in 1908 and 1909, ten years after Dr. Kuyper gave his famous "Lectures on Calvinism". Dr. Bavinck was the Professor of Theology who succeeded Kuyper at the Free University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and whose multi-volume "Reformed Dogmatics" is widely regarded as the premier product of systematic theology in the twentieth century of the orthodox Reformed tradition. It is interesting that his "Dogmatics" has waited so long to be translated, but thankfully it is done, and perhaps its ready availability in English will generate more interest in some of his lesser known work. I think it is also noteworthy that this book was translated, at least in part, by Dr. Geerhardus Vos of Princeton, and its publication was prepared and supervised by Vos and Warfield in the same year the lectures were finished. These two certainly kept themselves busy with their own studies and writings, so it strikes me as significant that they thought this book was important enough to see it translated and published so quickly after the lectures were delivered.

In these lectures, Bavinck discusses the importance of revelation in the major fields of human investigation, including philosophy, nature, history, religion, Christianity, religious experience, culture, and the future. He shows that in each of these areas, people have in various ways attempted to reduce the explanation of the phenomena to one original, universal principle (monism). However, as long as they ignore and deny the reality of God's revelation, they must seek this original, universal principle within the world. In each case Bavinck shows that these attempts end in futility and an inability to explain and understand the diversity of phenomena, which can only be understood intelligibly on the basis of the reality of revelation from God. In this context he considers a vast number of different theories that have been advanced in these fields by various thinkers. It is interesting how often the concept of evolution, which Bavinck notes has "become a magic formula", was championed in many fields outside of biology as the cornerstone of intelligibility. The chapter on religious experience is also of paramount interest in the context of the contemporary church and its obsession with personal experience, almost always with an (at best) tenuous association with objective revelation. Those who are familiar with Van Til will readily recognize the line of thought in Bavinck leading in that direction, and will happily find this volume much easier to read and understand. I wholeheartedly recommend this book.

From Preface:

"The present volume gives a connected and popular account of the researches that have been carried out in the Bose Institute, one of the objects of which...is to associate the advancement of knowledge with the widest possible civic and public diffusion of it.

In pursuing investigations on the border region of physics and physiology, I was amazed to find boundary lines vanishing and points of contact emerge between the realms of the Living and Non-Living. Metals are found to respond to stimuli; they are subject to fatigue, stimulated by certain drugs and 'killed' by poisons.

Between inorganic matters at one extreme end and animal life at the other, there is spread out the vast expanse of the silent life of plants. ....

I have been able to make the dumb plant the most eloquent chronicler of its inner life and experiences by making it write down its own history. ....

I shall take my readers with me step by step as the wonders become gradually revealed to me through artificial organs of extraordinary sensitiveness by which alone the realm of the invisible could be explored. ....."

This is a dynamic and enlightened perspective of the Kingdom of Light verses the kingdom of darkness.It is more relevant to life today than when it was first published in the 90s. Ward Ewing gives a lucid and comprehensive exposition of the Christian need to conform to biblical principles and practices for a successful and victorious life.His injunction " When most of lives are formed by and through the contractual communities of the beast, it forms the basis for which our perception of reality is based upon," is very insightful when we consider the present and constant economic crisis Christians are entangled by. This Book brings to life the Book Of Revelations in a way that none other has done so that we can understand,no longer suffering from a lack of knowledge, take constructive and prudent steps to overcome the world,live a balanced Christian life and proclaim Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done In Earth As It is In Heaven.