Apocalyptic

<I>This is a <a href=http://www.eerdmans.com/Pag%20es/About/Books-on-%20Demand.aspx>print on demand</a> book and is therefore non- returnable.</I><BR /><BR /> The study of apocalyptic — the body of ancient literature dealing with the end of the world — is vital to an understanding of the New Testament. Most of us however know very little about the subject — and if Leon Morris is correct much of what we think we know is wrong.<BR /><BR /> In this brief introduction to apocalyptic Morris brings together the results of a great deal of work that has been done on the subject by himself and others. In a clear and lucid style he addresses himself to the characteristics of apocalyptic writings the world from which they arose and their relation to the gospel. "Apocalyptic is not a good medium for expressing the cruciality of the cross" Morris concludes "and in fact it does not express it . . . We cannot understand important sections of the New Testament without some knowledge of apocalyptic. But we cannot hold that apocalyptic contains the key to the whole. . . ."