This volume offers reflections on approaches to preaching from the New Testament. It covers the main texts and genres, and also includes chapters on the infancy narratives, parables, miracles, ethics, future hope and judgment, archaeology and history, and hermeneutics.

The book of Revelation is the most developed example of a scriptural writer wrestling with the ideological implications of the gospel, and engaging with an opposing system in the light of what God has done in Jesus. It is an apocalypse, a letter and a prophecy. Ian Paul gives disciplined attention to the text, examines how John draws on the Old Testament, indicates how his message would have communicated and been understood in its first-century context, and makes connections with our contemporary world.