Behold I Am Coming Soon: Meditations on the Apocalypse of John (Wycliffe Studies in Gospel Church and Culture)

This book contains twelve meditations on the New Testament book of Revelation written by theologians biblical scholars historians and clergy. In short easy-to-read selections that are profound and relevant to life the meditations--along with three or four accompanying questions--help the reader engage more deeply with the Scripture passage. Given the potential challenges of this final book of the Christian canon these meditations help the reader find a way to enter in and experience more fully what John the author of the Apocalypse wanted us to hear and see. A facile criticism of seminaries is that their abstract theologizing seems distant from our concrete problems. Behold I Am Coming Soon belies such effectively. It confronts the off-putting sense many have of Revelation. It offers concise exegetical insights. It shows how it witnesses in its own way to doctrines like grace and justification. Its words about heaven and Gods time offer spiritual refreshment. In sum the book embodies what the oft-used term integration was reaching for. It will be read with profit by academic and lay audiences alike. --George R. Sumner episcopal bishop of Dallas Mari Leesment is a teaching fellow at Wycliffe College in the Toronto School of Theology at the University of Toronto. She is currently completing her PhD in New Testament.