APOCALYPSE DEFIES INTERPRETATION[/font][/size]
John's Apocalypse (in)famously
defies interpretation. Of course, all complex writings do so to some degree. In most cases, interpretive difficulty seems more like a bug in the nature of language than a feature of the work itself. But Revelation is different; more often than not,
it seems divinely inspired to resist any hermeneutical stabilization. For nearly two thousand years, earnest and brilliant scholars have tried to demonstrate otherwise, arguing for some new structural, literary, or historical key that would be able to tame the book at last.
Ironically, their efforts as yet have best succeeded in furnishing evidence for the case they hoped to disprove: the Apocalypse, like some spooky quantum particle, defies our cleverest categories. That it does so produces more than hermeneutical frustration; it also poses a theological question that until recently has been hard to hear.
In short: what might be the theological significances of an inherently, even flamboyantly, decentered text? (CLICK HERE FOR MORE)[/font][/size]
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