New Creation Milennialism

This short book is written mainly as exegesis of the text but with particular points drawn out to comment on the exegetical approaches of amillennialism and premillennialism -both of which are explicitly critiqued. For the most part it seemed convincing and made a case for what the author calls 'new creation millennialism'. I tend towards finding amillennialism more convincing, and I think that this persuaded me to be more skeptical of it. Though I think that I was helped in this by seeing how the exegesis takes a sensible approach to intratextuality and intertextuality -"interpreting scripture by scripture" as the author puts it. I am convinced that we need to read Revelation recursively rather than linearly and Mealy shows well how this works. Mealy is clearly writing from and to a fairly conservative western audience, though in undermining premillenialism he is questioning a big chunk of what underpins USAmerican fundamentalist and dominionist approaches to enagagement with the world. The other thing I warmed to in this book was the way it takes creation seriously and not just the human world.