How the Book of Revelation Deconstructs Empire with Dr. Ryan Hansen

The death and destruction in Revelations is the obvious stuff … what has to be revealed is that God is working to redeem human life …

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How the Book of Revelation Deconstructs Empire with Dr. Ryan Hansen

Dr. Ryan Hansen joins the podcast today to discuss the Book of Revelation.

Revelation is not a roadmap to the end of the world.

Revelation is actually politically subversive literature that deconstructs the way of empire and reconstructs the way of God.

Dr. Ryan Leif Hansen received a Ph.D. in New Testament from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. He teaches at Garrett-Evangelical and is an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene in Chicago. He is the author of Silence and Praise: Rhetorical Cosmology and Political Theology in the Book of Revelation.

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