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Author Talk, Dean Flemming, PhD
Mabee Learning Commons, 1st floor & Zoom
October 11 @ 7:00 pm

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Celebrate the launch of Dr. Dean Flemming’s newest book, Foretaste of the Future: Reading Revelation in Light of God’s Mission, with the author for a presentation, Q & A and book signing.

Dean Flemming (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is professor emeritus of New Testament and missions at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas. He has spent more than twenty years as a missionary educator in Asia and Europe. His books include Recovering the Full Mission of GodContextualization in the New Testament, and the New Beacon Bible Commentary on Philippians.

“For many Christians, the book of Revelation inspires confusion and fear. It's seen as a coded screenplay for the end times, or it's just too strange to understand. The problem, Dean Flemming contends, is that when we read Revelation as focused on the future, we miss what it says about what God is doing in the world now.”

Revelation is one of the richest texts in Scripture for understanding both God's mission to make everything new and how the church is caught up in that mission. In Foretaste of the Future, Flemming mines this largely untapped resource by introducing a missional reading of Revelation. Drawing from a variety of cultural perspectives, Flemming explores Revelation's original context, key themes, and transformational message that rings out for each new generation.

 

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