Thomas Phillips

“the Revelation is a gift—a work of intense imagination that pulls its reader into a world of sky battles between angels and beasts, lurid punishments and glorious salvations, kaleidoscopic vision and cosmic song. It is a world in which children are instinctively at home and in which adults, by becoming as little children, recapture an elemental involvement in the basic conflicts and struggles that permeate moral existence, and then go on to discover again the soaring adoration and primal affirmations for which God made us.”
― Scot McKnight, Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple

“What dispensationalism is known for even more is its belief in the imminent rapture that occurs before a future seven-year tribulation. Sometime near the end of that tribulation, Jesus will come back (the “second coming”), establish a literal one-thousand-year reign on earth, and then at the end of that millennium comes eternity. For dispensationalists the book of Revelation, at least from chapter four on, is entirely about that tribulation.”
― Scot McKnight, Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple

“Discipleship of the Crucified leads necessarily to resistance to idolatry on every front. This resistance is and must be the most important mark of Christian freedom.”
― Ernst Käsemann, On Being a Disciple of the Crucified Nazarene: Unpublished Lectures and Sermons

“Irenaeus’s view of the atonement is therefore based on the incarnation – he lays little emphasis on Christ’s death, treating it as part of his life, the whole of which brings about our”
― Jonathan Hill, The History of Christian Thought