thanks again.

“the emerging church movement seems to be informed by scholars who are grappling with the apocalyptic genre, and arguing that cosmic language can be put to use in a very immediate context – rendering obsolete dispensational (read ‘Left Behind’) “

for what its worth, the last time i read through revelation (this summer while working on a novel) it struck me that it could very well be a story of all of “life” (or since the “fall” perhaps?).

in that sense i feel myself to be “in and around” the stuff of the revelation story in much the same way i feel inside the lord of the rings trilogy. not as a didactic allegory like pilgrims progress, but storytelling that speaks truths in ways epistles never can.

in this way i can imagine “cosmic language in a very immediate context.” am i following you at all? (and please dont make me read “left behind,” my literary sensibilities simply couldnt bear it).