A Slaughtered Lamb: Revelation and the Apocalyptic Response to Evil and Suffering

The book of Revelation is often read as a book of strange and impenetrable visions about the end of time. But actually it is one of the most relevant books in the Bible for Christian faith in the twenty-first century. Evil and suffering are unavoidable realities of human experience and they generate a host of questions for those seeking to be faithful in the midst of such experiences. Why do Christians suffer? how do we understand God's sovereignty in a world of injustice and violence? What...