CURRENT CONTEXTS ARE PERCEIVED BY A LARGE PART OF THE POPULATION WITH MARKEDLY FATALISTIC SENTIMENTS. PHENOMENA OF VARIOUS KINDS CONTRIBUTE TO THIS: THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE UNREGULATED USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, THE PROLIFERATION OF “FAKE NEWS,” THE SPREAD OF MILITARISTIC, ARMS-FOCUSED AND XENOPHOBIC POLICIES, INTERNATIONAL WARS AND INTERNAL CONFLICTS IN NUMEROUS COUNTRIES, THE SUSTAINED GROWTH OF INEQUALITY AND POVERTY, AND THE INTENSIFICATION OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS. THESE FACTORS, TAKEN TOGETHER, FEED THE WIDESPREAD PERCEPTION THAT HUMANITY STANDS AT A POINT OF NO RETURN IN ITS HISTORY. IT IS THEREFORE NO COINCIDENCE THAT THE TERM “APOCALYPTIC” IS INCREASINGLY USED TO DESCRIBE THESE PHENOMENA.<\/p>\n
GIVEN THIS PANORAMA, THIS SYMPOSIUM PROPOSES TO OFFER A BALANCED AND RIGOROUS APPROACH TO THE BOOK OF REVELATION OF JOHN, AS WELL AS TO APOCALYPTIC THOUGHT, BOTH BIBLICAL AND EXTRABIBLICAL. IT SHOULD BE RECALLED THAT APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE DID NOT ARISE IN A VACUUM: IT WAS BORN PRECISELY IN TIMES OF PROFOUND CRISIS AND WAS ERECTED, FROM RELIGIOUS FAITH, AS A HOPEFUL AND RESISTANT RESPONSE TO SITUATIONS OF OPPRESSION AND DESOLATION.<\/p>\n
IN THIS SENSE, A READING OF REVELATION AND OF THE APOCALYPTIC TRADITION THAT RESPECTS ITS ORIGINAL CONTEXTS –HISTORICAL, LITERARY AND THEOLOGICAL– PROVIDES WELL-GROUNDED ELEMENTS FOR ARTICULATING A CRITICAL AND PROPHETIC RESPONSE TO THE CATASTROPHIST AND FEAR-BASED DISCOURSES THAT CHARACTERIZE MANY CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES. FAR FROM REINFORCING FATALISM, THIS READING SEEKS TO RECOVER THE TRANSFORMATIVE AND HOPEFUL DIMENSION THAT LIES AT THE VERY HEART OF THE APOCALYPTIC GENRE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","simposio_area":[56],"class_list":["post-10569","simposio","type-simposio","status-publish","hentry","simposio_area-estudios-religiosos-biblicos-teologicos-y-pastorales"],"yoast_head":"\n