Apocalypse Without the Beasts
A high school teacher finds the sacred in all the wrong places
By Greg Taylor | posted 10/01/2003 12:00AM
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Yet that is precisely the point. Dark relays a priceless exchange between Malcolm Muggeridge and William F. Buckley to explain that anything since the resurrection of Christ is laughable. It is also painfully anemic, "compared to what we somehow know we're made for."
Like Karl Barth's dictum that sermons should be written with Bible in one hand and newspaper in the other, Dark thrives in the theater seat of a Coen film with Bible scholar N. T. Wright on one side and rock star Bono on the other. Everyday Apocalypse calls us out of the classroom to a fresh way of seeing and hearing. Dark shows the ironic summons of apocalypse for us to be "more awake and alive."
Greg Taylor is managing editor of New Wineskins magazine (www.wineskins.org) and coauthor of the newly released Down in the River to Pray (Leafwood).
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Everyday Apocalypse is available from Christianbook.com and other book retailers.
Christianity Today sister publication Books & Culture also reviewedEveryday Apocalypse.
The book web site has other reviews, discussion, and chapter summaries along with other David Dark information.
An excerpt is available from the publisher.
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