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In Apocalypse, Ellul describes the New Jerusalem as the reverse image of the fallen global city. Apocalypse is not about changing worlds but about changing the world. The Book of Revelation is an iconoclastic mirror for the world in this present moment. --Darrel Fasching Those who read the Bible for nourishment generally see the New Testament book of Revelation as bizarre and forbidding. Jacques Ellul sees it as 'written for movement, play of colors, multiple interaction, multiple meaning.' Revelation's interpreters have made piecemeal use of its imagery, or treated it as a coded message of fortitude. Ellul ignores neither symbolical detail nor historical setting, but looks mainly to the structure of the book and the overall message it conveys now, as at the time of writing. --Kirkus Review

In Apocalypse, Ellul describes the New Jerusalem as the reverse image of the fallen global city. Apocalypse is not about changing worlds but about changing the world. The Book of Revelation is an iconoclastic mirror for the world in this present moment. --Darrel Fasching Those who read the Bible for nourishment generally see the New Testament book of Revelation as bizarre and forbidding. Jacques Ellul sees it as 'written for movement, play of colors, multiple interaction, multiple meaning.' Revelation's interpreters have made piecemeal use of its imagery, or treated it as a coded message of fortitude. Ellul ignores neither symbolical detail nor historical setting, but looks mainly to the structure of the book and the overall message it conveys now, as at the time of writing. --Kirkus Review

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Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) was a French law professor, social theorist, and lay theologian, teaching at the University of Bordeaux, France. Among his 58 published books, his best-known works include The Technological Society, Propaganda, The Humiliation of the Word, and Hope in Time of Abandonment.

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