What is it about?
This article is about how apocalyptic texts in the Bible can be understood as stories traumatized communities told in order to process and recover from catastrophic events and begin to have hope for the future. It is also about racism as a modern catastrophe which may require, amongst many other things, this kind of apocalyptic process of recovery.
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Perspectives
This article arose from a keynote lecture I gave at the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics annual conference. I found 2017 a difficult time to think about the conference theme of hope (!), but was surprised that I found new hope, but 'hope without optimism', in revisiting apocalyptic in a new way.
Dr Elizabeth Phillips
Woolf Institute
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This page is a summary of: Narrating Catastrophe, Cultivating Hope: Apocalyptic Practices and Theological Virtue, Studies in Christian Ethics, November 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0953946817737504.
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