A paleoanthropologist reveals the teaching he received from a revered Hawaiian shaman, including the three life rules of a spiritual warrior, solemn rituals for communing with nature and purifying the consciousness and how to look at the Grand Plan of one's ancestors. By the co-…
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This volume explores the possibilities and pressures of the language of revelation on human understanding. How can we critically account for divine self-disclosure in the linguistically mediated world of human concerns? Does the structure of interpretation limit the language of …
The Book of Revelation is a fascinating piece of Scripture as well as an extraordinary piece of literature. In this Tyndale Commentary, Ian Paul takes a disciplined approach to the text, paying careful attention to the ways that John draws from the Old Testament. Additionally, P…
Progressive parallelism is a structural approach to the book of Revelation which states that the Apocalypse is arranged as a series of vision cycles. Each of these cycles (covering 3–4 chapters) addresses roughly the same chronological period (generally the time between the firs…
This dissertation is an intellectual history of Muslim understandings of Qur’ānic Revelation from the first/seventh century to the fifth/eleventh century as presented in the Qur’ān, Sunni ḥadīth, Qur’ān commentary, Sunni kalām, Imami Shiʿi ḥadīth, and Shiʿi Ismaili philosophical…
At the beginning of the 20th Century, neo-scholastic thought discussed divine revelation almost exclusively in terms of its objective content: God has revealed specific truths expressible in concrete propositions. It also claimed that divine revelation ceased with the death of t…
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a faith that is distinguished by its religious texts. The nickname “Mormon,” that has been applied to adherents of the faith, comes from the name of its most cherished canonical book, the Book of Mormon. Aside from the Bible and…
“The medium is the message:” theological reflections on the idea that God is love. I am proposing that the idea of the self-revelational nature of God’s being functions, among other ways, rhetorically, such that the content of revelation (God’s love) determines the rhetorical mo…