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The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation Hardcover - 2004

by Barbara R. Rossing

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The idea of "The Rapture" - the return of Christ to snatch born-again Christians off the earth - is an extremely popular interpretation of the Book of Revelation in the Bible and a jumping-off point for the best-selling Left Behind series of books. However, most Christian churches and biblical scholars condemn rapture theology as a distortion of Christian faith with little biblical basis. Yet this interpretation, based on a psychology of fear and destruction, guides the daily acts of thousands if not millions of North Americans and people worldwide.In The Rapture Exposed, professor of theology and ordained minister Barbara Rossing argues that the Left Behind novels' script for the world's future distorts the Bible, is disingenuous, and flat out wrong. There is neither "rapture" of Christians off the earth, nor does Revelation predict a seven-year tribulation culminating in war in Israel and the Middle East. Rather, Rossing argues, Revelation offers a vision of God's healing love for the world - a love that will not be left behind. The Rapture Exposed makes the case for reclaiming Christianity from fundamentalists' destructive reading of the biblical story and back into God's beloved community.

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  • Title The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation
  • Author Barbara R. Rossing
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
  • Date March 30, 2004
  • ISBN 9780813391564 / 0813391563
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.3 x 0.82 in (23.52 x 16.00 x 2.08 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003027965
  • Dewey Decimal Code 236.9

About the author

Barbara R. Rossing teaches New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. She holds a doctorate from Harvard University Divinity School and a Masters of Divinity degree from Yale University Divinity School. An ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, she lives in Chicago.
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