An Alternative, Cruciform Interpretive Strategy After deconstruction there must be reconstruction. We have begun this process with a summary of Revelation’s theology. What follows is an alternative set of principles—a Lamb-centered, cruciform interpretive strategy, or hermeneutic—for reading Revelation. It is an alternative to the popular way of reading Revelation as seen in the “Left Behind” series and in similar approaches. But this interpretation is not idiosyncratic; rather it incorporates and synthesizes some of the major trends in the interpretation of Revelation noted above and required
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