Kendra Haloviak Valentine is an associate professor and chair of the department of New Testament Studies at the H.M.S. Richards Divinity School at La Sierra University in California. She completed doctoral studies at the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley, is an ordained pastor, and has taught in the United States and Australia. Recent publications include The Book of Revelation in The Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics (2011) and Signs to Life: Reading and Responding to John's Gospel (2013).
Kendra Haloviak Valentine directs the reader to look around the
worshipping assembly of John's heavenly liturgies and witness how
the gathered community symbolizes the common hope of an eschaton
saturated in righteousness. . . . This book is a great resource for
preachers who want to give voice in earthly liturgies to the
heavenly visions of John's worshipping communities. Preachers who
read this commentary will, like the voices in the visions, also be
able to lead worship and preach with multiple voices.
--Maury D. Jackson, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry, HMS
Richards Divinity School, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA The
Book of Revelation may touch off delusion--or moral passion worthy
of the Hebrew prophets. Seeing it as a puzzle with a final answer
makes interpretation an exercise of (delusion-prone) ego. But if
the book itself contains colliding points of view, and if
interpretation is a never-final dialogue, then Revelation becomes a
call to worship and witness, repentance and justice. The author
makes this latter case, and makes it brilliantly.
--Charles Scriven, former President, Kettering College, Kettering,
OH
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