Sentences with phrase «called apocalyptic literature»

We often think of the Revelation as a quite unique book with nothing else like it; but it is of the first importance to remember that in fact the Revelation is the one representative in the NT of a type of literature called apocalyptic literature which was very common between the Testaments and in NT times.

It's called apocalyptic literature.

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Apocalyptic literature follows the pattern of a vision in which the author receives a call to write, and then describes, with highly cryptic imagery, a series of symbolic events which predict the overthrow of evil and the triumph of righteousness.

In the August issue of Bible Review magazine, Witherington noted the popular appeal that apocalyptic literature has in unsettling times, «Unfortunately, not all apocalyptic thinking is good apocalyptic thinking, and this is especially true of the so - called dispensational theology that informs these novels,» Witherington wrote.

This concentration on the idea of revelation as God's plan is all the more insistent in what apocalyptic literature which was subsequently grafted on to the prophetic trunk, calls «apocalypse» — i.e., revelation in the strict sense of the word — the unveiling of God's plans concerning the «last days.»