Christopher Rowland is Dean Ireland's Professor Emeritus of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture in the University of Oxford. His many books include Blake and the Bible, Revelation (with Judith Kovacs), The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology, Christian Origins: The Setting and Character of the Most Important Messianic Sect of Judaism, and Radical Christian Writings: A Reader (with Andrew Bradstock).

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• Part 1: The Roots of Christian Radicalism Chapter 1: ‘Would to God that all the Lords people were Prophets’Chapter 2: Heaven on Earth: The Roots of Christian Radicalism in the New Testament Part 2: Kairos: The Unique Moment and Apocalyptic DiscernmentChapter 3: Human Actors in the Divine Drama Chapter 4: Subversive Apocalypse Part 3: Contrasting Radical Prophets: Gerrard Winstanley and William BlakeChapter 5: Gerrard Winstanley: Responding to a Kairos Moment in English HistoryChapter 6: ‘From impulse not from rules’: William Blake’s Apocalyptic Pedagogy Part 4: Christian Radicalism in Modernity: An Example and a Neglected PerspectiveChapter 7: Liberation Theology: How to Proclaim God in aWorld that is InhumaneChapter 8: Apocalypticism and Millenarian Eschatology: Recovering Neglected Strands Epilogue: ‘… And here I end’: Concluding Reflections

Christopher Rowland is Dean Ireland's Professor Emeritus of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture in the University of Oxford. His many books include Blake and the Bible, Revelation (with Judith Kovacs), The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology, Christian Origins: The Setting and Character of the Most Important Messianic Sect of Judaism, and Radical Christian Writings: A Reader (with Andrew Bradstock).

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• Part 1: The Roots of Christian Radicalism Chapter 1: ‘Would to God that all the Lords people were Prophets’Chapter 2: Heaven on Earth: The Roots of Christian Radicalism in the New Testament Part 2: Kairos: The Unique Moment and Apocalyptic DiscernmentChapter 3: Human Actors in the Divine Drama Chapter 4: Subversive Apocalypse Part 3: Contrasting Radical Prophets: Gerrard Winstanley and William BlakeChapter 5: Gerrard Winstanley: Responding to a Kairos Moment in English HistoryChapter 6: ‘From impulse not from rules’: William Blake’s Apocalyptic Pedagogy Part 4: Christian Radicalism in Modernity: An Example and a Neglected PerspectiveChapter 7: Liberation Theology: How to Proclaim God in aWorld that is InhumaneChapter 8: Apocalypticism and Millenarian Eschatology: Recovering Neglected Strands Epilogue: ‘… And here I end’: Concluding Reflections