The Revelation Worldview: Apocalyptic Thinking in a Postmodern World

Does Christianity have anything useful or credible to say to the twenty-first century, or is it just a relic of a past era, doomed eventually to die a long and painful death, perhaps to be replaced by the new atheism or another religion? In an original contribution to such debates, The Revelation Worldview is a bold attempt to construct a biblically based Christian worldview that makes sense to postmodern people. It also seeks to make the book of Revelation, one of the most strange and difficult books in the Bible, relevant to issues facing people in the twenty-first century. Jon K. Newton wrestles with the complex notion of worldview, tells the story of the changing Western worldview from its ancient and medieval beginnings through the modern era and into the unpredictable world of postmodernism, and compares the worldview found in Revelation with other worldviews of its day. He then uses Revelation as a source for identifying some basic Christian answers to questions such as: What is real? How do we know anything? How can religious knowledge claims be justified? How can we understand the concept of the human person? How can we make sense of history? And how should we respond to pluralism?

Jon K. Newton serves as Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Pentecostalism at Alphacrucis University College in Australia. He is the author of Revelation Reclaimed (Paternoster 2009), The Revelation Worldview (Wipf and Stock 2015) and A Pentecostal Commentary on Revelation (Wipf and Stock 2021). He is an ordained minister with Australian Christian Churches (formerly Assemblies of God in Australia) and holds a PhD from Deakin University, Australia. He is married to Judy and has 5 adult children and 6 grandchildren.