Elaine Pagels says the Book of Revelation was not a Christian book, but a warning issued 90 years after the death of Jesus that Jewish followers of Jesus better not form a new religion You can save ...

For nearly 2,000 years, each succeeding generation of Christians has tried to puzzle out whether the Book of Revelation's riddles and symbols has meant its own time was the end of time. Over the past ...

“Revelation” is a mysterious-sounding word. Sometimes it conjures visions in our minds of the end of the world. That happens when we think of the last book of the Bible—the Book of Revelation. But ...

A passage from the Book of Revelation, a prophetic book of the Bible filled with rich symbolism, illustrates the difficulty one may encounter when reading Scripture. A survey commissioned by the ...

The fathers of the Second Vatican Council felt they should make a statement summarizing the Church’s teaching about the Bible. The result was one of the most beautiful and succinct documents on ...

Hundreds of people lined up outside San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club recently, braving protesters in demon masks blasting death metal, all to hear billionaire Peter Thiel deliver a lecture about the ...

Section by section, we’ve moved this Lent and into Easter week through the Bible. I’ve pointed out the parallels, the echoes between the Hebrew scriptures and the Greek testament, often called the Old ...

The cryptic Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible deliberately uses the language and verbal elements seen in Roman curse tablets, probably in an effort to reinforce its message, one researcher ...