Apocalyptic ecology
Subtitle: the book of Revelation, the Earth, and the future
By: Micah D. Kiel ; foreword by Barbara R. Rossing
Contributors: Rossing, Barbara R., writer of foreword
Publisher: Liturgical Press; Michael Glazier
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Collegeville, Minnesota
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780814687826
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Forecasting; Bible
Description: The author of the book of Revelation struggled, as we do today, to live out a Christian faith in the context of an empire that trampled and destroyed the earth and its creatures. In this book, Micah D. Kiel will look at how and why Revelation was written, along with how it has been interpreted across the centuries, to come to an understanding of its potential contribution to a modern environmental ethic. While the book of Revelation is replete with images of destruction of the earth, Kiel shows readers, through Revelation’s ancient context, a message of hope that calls for the care of and respect for the environment.
Notes: "A Michael Glazier book."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Burn marks and biography (guiding metaphors); title: Revelation's personality (the earth and the future in an Apocalyptic ecology); title: Revelation's ancestors (an ecological alternative in the context of Hellenistic war); title: Revelation's upbringing (critique of empire and its ecological components); title: Revelation's career (environmental entanglement in illuminated manuscripts); title: Revelation's legacy (endings and beginnings).