remove "St" from "St John"

4 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/chapter2.md b/chapter2.md
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--- a/chapter2.md
+++ b/chapter2.md
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ writer such as Foster, intentionally seeking to break new imaginative ground for
 conceptualising green crises, seems unable to escape the motif of catastrophe.
 
 The word 'apocalypse' is sometimes used as if to stand for 'catastrophe.'
-Of course, the Apocalypse of St John has a great deal in common with the concept
+Of course, the Apocalypse of John has a great deal in common with the concept
 of a geological catastrophe. Cosmos-scale world-changing events destroy much of
 the existing world order and its life-sustaining powers: the heavens are
 rolled up like a scroll, the sun and moon are darkened, water turns to blood,
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ warming campaign film, _An Inconvenient Truth_, was (and remains) typical in the
 way he describes the consequences of certain floods and wildfires as 'like a
 nature hike through the Book of Revelations' [@inconvenient-truth]. In the next
 chapter, I will argue that reducing apocalypse to mere catastrophe misses out
-important features of apocalyptic language as exemplified by St John, but for
+important features of apocalyptic language as exemplified by John, but for
 now it is worth noting that some rhetors use allusions to the Apocalypse in order
 to function as a catastrophic symbol.
 
diff --git a/chapter3.md b/chapter3.md
index 13dfc63..00d6f7a 100644
--- a/chapter3.md
+++ b/chapter3.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ catastrophe is the dominant effective symbol associated with apocalyptic
 language.
 
 In what remains of this chapter, I will argue that in the case of the Apocalypse
-of St John, by far the dominant model of apocalyptic literature in the
+of John, by far the dominant model of apocalyptic literature in the
 post-Christendom West, these criticisms do not cut. For John and his historical
 audience, John's visions of catastrophe were essential to his critique of the
 Roman Empire. In contrast to the accusations of fatalism, conservatism and
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ creation, while the nations of the earth flood in to worship and to receive life
 and healing. 'It is an ethic for martyrdom,' as John J. Collins, a leading
 scholar on biblical apocalyptic, puts it [@apocalyptic-imagination, chp. 9].
 
-St John's rhetoric therefore is against fatalism: he motivates and calls his
+John's rhetoric therefore is against fatalism: he motivates and calls his
 audience to meaningful political action. It is against conservatism: he asks his
 audience to subvert dominant power structures and build a radical alternative
 society and value system. It is ardently political: his rhetoric is rooted in a
diff --git a/chapter4.md b/chapter4.md
index 071350b..dd06553 100644
--- a/chapter4.md
+++ b/chapter4.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ rhetoric is too often failing, and discussed the particular criticism of the use
 of catastrophic language. In the previous chapter, I argued that these
 criticisms of catastrophic language do not apply to the use of apocalyptic
 language in the most important model of apocalyptic rhetoric in Western
-literature, namely, the Apocalypse of St John. Now, in this chapter, I aim to
+literature, namely, the Apocalypse of John. Now, in this chapter, I aim to
 show that in order for green rhetoric to succeed, it should imitate the
 apocalyptic rhetorical strategies of the Apocalypse discussed in the previous chapter.
 
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ have already examined one example from _The Future We Choose_
 where this might all end, for good or ill. Even the Cold-War-inspired total
 catastrophism is one perspective on the end times.
 
-St. John, like all biblical apocalypticists, affirms a utopian end-time. As I
+John, like all biblical apocalypticists, affirms a utopian end-time. As I
 discussed in the previous chapter, this is important to his rhetorical goals.
 There is no use pointing to a dystopia, or (perhaps worse still) concluding
 that we can't really be certain what the ultimate future holds. Such
@@ -216,5 +216,5 @@ horizon' [@ajl-gnd, p. 95]. Or, as utopia scholar Lisa Garforth puts it:
 > a break – in culture, politics and modes of subjectivity. [@green-utopias, p. 153]
 
 In sum, minority cognition, tribulation discourse, and utopian end-time
-speculation as displayed in the Apocalypse of St John are essential apocalyptic
+speculation as displayed in the Apocalypse of John are essential apocalyptic
 rhetorical strategies for today's green rhetors.
diff --git a/chapter5.md b/chapter5.md
index f9b48d3..ce14a90 100644
--- a/chapter5.md
+++ b/chapter5.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ This line of thought, together with the fact that 'apocalypse' is treated as a
 catastrophic symbol in popular culture, leads Frances Flannery to suggest that
 green rhetors should avoid evoking apocalyptic associations.
 
-However, in chapter 3, I argued that the Apocalypse of St. John, the chief
+However, in chapter 3, I argued that the Apocalypse of John, the chief
 source of apocalyptic language in the West, had a very different catastrophic
 dialectic, and did not create the aforementioned negative reactions, but rather
 used apocalyptic language as an essential tool in the author's rhetorical