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diff --git a/chapter3.md b/chapter3.md index 838c4d0..98b6c2a 100644 --- a/chapter3.md +++ b/chapter3.md @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ audience, John's visions of catastrophe were essential to his critique of the Roman Empire. In contrast to the accusations of fatalism, conservatism and death-of-politics levelled against contemporary green catastrophism, John's catastrophism motivated his audience to action, undermined dominant ideologies, -and exposed economic social structure as a basis for radical political critique. +and exposed economic social structure as a basis for political critique. Further, catastrophism only scratches the surface of John's apocalypticism, and I'll show how three further aspects of his apocalyptic language add to his rhetorical strategy. In the next chapter, I'll show how these features of John's @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ which he wants his audience to endure. Thus, as Ben Witherington III puts it: Using this alternative catastrophic dialectic, exhorting his audience to endure an ongoing disaster rather than avert a future one, is essential to John's -radical politics. Andrew Chester [@chaos-new-creation] has explored in detail +politics. Andrew Chester [@chaos-new-creation] has explored in detail how John subverted the dominant Greek value-system, beginning with the observation that in Rev 6:12-17, God's life-sustaining creative acts of Gen 1 are threatened with total annihilation: @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ analysis of power structures within Greek society, and particularly between the rich and poor among Asian Christian churches. As a result, apocalypticism has been a powerful force helping to mobilise -radical social movements – for better and for worse – continually throughout +transformative social movements – for better and for worse – continually throughout Christian history. The Gregorian reforms, the Lombards, the Hussites, the Lutherans, the Diggers, Columbus and the American 'Founding Fathers,' the French, American and Haitian Revolutions, the numerous evangelical revivals, the |