Revelations Books

Wilcox starts with the very assumption that John's Revelation is NOT difficult to understand, and that there are keys which enable us to comprehend it. He plainly tells us that he's going to focus on the simplicity of the John's book -- and that he does.

If you're in business or customer service and have clients you truly care about, you simply have to read this book!

Zero client turnover is the goal and this book points the way to constant improvement and a passion to deliver extraordinary service at all levels. It offers a proactive campaign to meeting needs and is an awesome tool.

I not only recommend it but would roll it out company wide. Every job function can gain from its insight.

Very good overview of why there are so many denominations in the world. Provides answers from the Bible. Provides ways in which you can distinguish the truth from error using Scripture.

This book is a great addition to anyones graphic novel collection. It contains issues 8 to 16 from the popular witchblade comic book series (top cow). The artwork looks great. The writing is good. The story picks up after Sarahs first major battle with keneth irons. For anyone who just started collecting the witchblade comicbook series and want to get their hands on previous hard to find issues i would recomend this collected edition.

No matter how young or how old we are, we discover that there are many stumbling blocks that keep us from making a graceful transition into womanhood. In the book Woman by Revelation, you will find help in overcoming over many of life's stumbling blocks and accepting the wonder and the beauty of how awesome God created you. You will discover that you are a woman...by revelation.

It is a very short interview but it leaves you amazed. This is an interview with a holy saint from Russia: St. Seraphim of Sarov. As a work from the Eastern Catholic Orthodox Church, St. Seraphim speaks deeply about the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is often missing in the Christian discourse of the West and for that reason this book should be read by all serious Christians who wish to live their faith deeply. With only 40 pages, this work can easily be read in one sitting, but it definitely should be read more than once.

By probing deeply into the age old myths, one discovers the mystic's journey. Deeply profound and mind expanding. I highly recommend this book to anyone who considers themselves a "deep thinker" or a student of the spiritual path.

This book is a veritable treasure! Every phrase shows forth the complete tenderness and mercy of our God and Saviour. Very enlightening, consoling to the utmost, and to be recommended to all! It will help anyone to learn to love and put their complete confidence in God, Who can do anything and wants to- God is Love.

Worldwide Perspectives is an outstanding compilation of research and essays on the subject of world missions. This work examines God's plan for world missions. The book explains how Christians are held responsible for the Great Commission mandate, how they have been blessed for being a part of God's plan for world wide redemption, and the consequences for nations and believers who failed to accept the challenge of world missions. The true need for world evangelism and Great Commission strategies are explained. Raising up truly indigenous churches, the role of culture and the dynamic of spiritual warfare are among the topics of study. I found the work to be filled with balanced and relevant insights from some of the finest missiologists and theologian in the world. Authors include John Stott, Johannes Verkuyl, Walter Kaiser, Don Richardson, Donald McGavarn, Peter Wagner and many others. The book is actually a condensed research library on the subject of world missions. I highly recommend Worldwide Perspectives to missionaries, pastors, church leaders and all those interested in world missions today.

We talk too much. We read too much. We hear too much. So much so, that we have lost the art of doing, of acting - as individuals or as a people. We no longer understand what it is to belong to a people who acts, who has `public action' of its own. We no longer are liturgical.

For in our vernacularism and modernisation and reform, the very nature of the leiturgia - the nature of what is truly the work of the people - has been lost. Today we seek to comprehend and explain and decide what we do in our churches, but, it is utterly questionable as to whether our people experience in Western Catholic liturgy as it is usually celebrated the liturgical revelation of Almighty God.

In fact, let's drop the adjective "liturgical" and use Hemming's words which assert that the liturgy is nothing less than "the ordinary and continual revealing of [God's] truth." If this is true, it cannot be a forum for our own self-expression which we construct. It cannot necessarily be within our immediate comprehension or subject to our didactic commentary. It must be experienced, indeed lived as worship of Almighty God - as opposed to being `enjoyed' as a form of Christian activism - in order to begin to grasp something of what is being communicated in it: the very life of God Himself.

This raises the question not only of what liturgical practices are appropriate, but more fundamentally of the place of the liturgy in Catholic theology.

Why has Hemming, fundamentally a philosopher, concerned himself with this question? The answer is simple. This is not an erudite academic discourse. Nor is it an ecclesio-political one. It is the fruit of the author's experience of Catholic worship celebrated in continuity with her millennial tradition in which he has found that in that very ritual worship the Incarnate God made man is indeed within our grasp. It is also testament to his experience that most attempts to facilitate such connection in recent decades - from guitars to garrulous clergy - whilst they may have resulted in our happily holding hands with each other, have in part (at least) lead us to forget about the worship of Almighty God. And whilst modern liturgical forms might have led us to "feel good," it is the former that most clearly and fruitfully reveals the Triune God who has definitively revealed himself in our history, and who thereby makes demands upon us by way of both orthopraxy and orthodoxy.

Hemming - as a worshipping Catholic - knows this. As a philosopher and as a theologian he has investigated its import for us today. Hence Worship as a Revelation.

This book's philosophical and theological sophistication will challenge theologians and liturgists to re-examine their assumptions about how they perceive the relationship between theology and liturgy. For if worship is indeed the revelation of Almighty God, its centrality and indeed its priority in theological endeavour cannot be denied. The Sacred Liturgy can no longer be one component of theology, it must be its foundation, for theology that is not grounded in the living revelation of God that is the liturgy rapidly degenerates into the mere study of religion.

Hemming's evaluation of the liturgical reforms over the past century are provocative: very few will have located the genesis of the late twentieth century liturgical crisis in the reign of the good and sainted Pope Pius X, but Hemming's argument for precisely this is compelling. The author wisely refrains from proposing simplistic solutions, but allows us to see the anomalies of liturgical reform in the twentieth century for what they are theologically - a dangerous tampering with the continuity of God's revelation in the liturgy. Few `trained liturgists' have been prepared to enter into serious debate on this question. It is to be hoped that Worship as a Revelation might bring them forth.

For Hemming's rich and clear liturgical theology is starkly distinct from that prevailing in the Western Catholic Church, because it is not based on the desire for archaeological reconstruction of a `dreamtime' primitive liturgical purity, nor indeed for a modern ideological construction of something tailor-made for "modern man" (whomsoever he might be). No; Hemming is no ideologue nor is he an antiquarian: he is one who has discovered that, precisely in the sometimes untidy and somewhat idiosyncratic habits of worship handed on to us from our forebears, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, indeed the very God who became Incarnate and who died and rose for the remission of ours sins that we might share unending communion with Him and all the saints, is to be found. Catholic worship is indeed a revelation. It is a live epiphany, it is tangible theology, it is the very heart - indeed the "source and summit" of our faith.

That, of course, is why we tamper with the liturgy at our peril. That is why Pope Benedict XVI has placed the reform - neigh, the correction - of the Sacred Liturgy so high on the agenda of this pontificate. And that is why this book will provoke the liturgical establishment, for Hemming does not accept that the apotheosis of all Christian liturgy may be found in the forms produced following the Second Vatican Council, or indeed in the manner in which these forms have been celebrated in the subsequent years.

The role of Sacred Scripture in the life of the Church - as Hemming reminds us, a very live Reformation and Enlightenment issue - is another area in which his liturgical theology makes serious and important claims. In short, he points out - and at last someone has had the courage and clarity to do this - that "the liturgy is the proper ground of Scripture (and not the other way round, i.e. the false view that the liturgy derives from Scripture)," or, put more simply, in the modern understanding of the relationship between the liturgy and scripture, "scripture has lost its ground." This claim to priority on behalf of the liturgy over the biblical text will certainly provoke debate. But once again, if Worship as a Revelation becomes a catalyst for the re-examination of what a Catholic understanding of role of Sacred Scripture indeed is, it shall have done very well indeed.

This then is a book that must be read and studied and read again by theologians, scripture scholars, liturgists, all seminary faculty, and indeed by all liturgical `practitioners' - clerical and lay. It will challenge and it will inform. The pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI continues to remind us that "the true celebration of the Sacred Liturgy is the centre of any renewal of the Church whatever." Dr Hemming has rendered the Church a fine service by pointing us along the path toward a true understanding of the liturgy, a path that cannot but inform our celebration of it.