The title for Revelation I actually prefer above all the candidates is what I chose as the second part of this book’s subtitle: “Following the Lamb into the New Creation.” This subtitle attempts to express my conviction that Revelation is fundamentally a book about Christ, worship and discipleship, and final hope for the world. But it is such in contrast to a kind of false religion and allegiance. The first part of the subtitle, “Uncivil Worship and Witness,” is a thus a play on words; Revelation is “uncivil” in its rejection of civil religion, whether of the first or the twenty-first century.
