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As the Clone Wars rage, victory or defeat lies in the hands of elite squads that take on the toughest assignments in the galaxy–stone-cold soldiers who go where no one else would, to do what no one else could. . . .
On a mission to sabotage a chemical weapon research facility on a Separatist-held planet, four clone troopers operate under the very noses of their enemies. The commandos are outnumbered and outgunned, deep behind enemy lines with no backup–and working with strangers instead of trusted teammates. Matters don’t improve when Darman, the squad’s demolitions expert, gets separated from the others during planetfall. Even Darman’s apparent good luck in meeting an inexperienced Padawan vanishes once Etain admits to her woeful inexperience.
For the separated clone commandos and stranded Jedi, a long, dangerous journey lies ahead, through hostile territory brimming with Trandoshan slavers, Separatists, and suspicious natives. A single misstep could mean discovery . . . and death. It’s a virtual suicide mission for anyone–anyone except Republic Commandos.
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A Great Read!.......2007-10-06
I am only 16 so this was a bit of an advanced book for me. Although it took me a little while to get used to the author's style i thoroghly enjoyed the book. Once i adjusted to the author's style it was fanstastic and i couldn't put it down. The book gives a great insight into the lives of the clones and their weapons,tactics, training, etc.
Good Read.......2007-08-23
I read this book relatively quickly. Not because it was an easy, quick read, but because I couldn't put it down. As soon as I was done reading a few chapters, I wanted to find out what happened next. But like every human being, I needed sleep. If you liked the characters and situations in this book, I recommend the second book: Triple Zero (Star Wars: Republic Commando)
I've never read a Star Wars book before so i was a little wary of it at first. But when I dove down and started reading it, I couldn't wait to finish it and start the next one.
An excellent read! .......2007-06-12
Okay. I first have to say I normally hate books like this one. I have read the vast majority of the Clone Wars Star Wars novels and so far I have hated each and every one of them. When I first heard about this one I thought oh brother. Here we go again. After several long months I couldn't stand it and picked it up. I have to say I loved it! Miss Traviss writes with a very military flair. I spent ten years in Service and to have an author come this close. . .well it was refreshing. Add to that the characters did not resort to contrived banter nor did Miss Traviss rely on absurd plot devices to carry the story. I enjoyed that Miss Traviss also did not make her characters larger than life. Some of these guys seemed like troops I served with and that was refreshing. Would I recommend this book? Absolutely. It captures the spirit and grit of Star Wars without all the hocus pocus, irrelevant characters so many other novels seem tobe filled with. It is an easy read and I anticipate reading this over and over for a little escape.
Good not great.......2007-05-31
I've read almost every Star Wars book ever written. This one is unique in that gives depth to the faceless clones. It's a unique angle that I haven't seen before.
It's a decent read but I never really became overly excited. The characters are decently fleshed out but never really make you care much about them. The plot never really develops fully. It's like watching a movie that fizzles out at the climax.
Decent read for Star Wars fans but mostly mediocre.
Nice Concept.......2007-04-29
I enjoyed the concept of getting to know the Clone Commandos. They aren't expendable and that they are real humans are what you learn in this book. I enjoyed meeting a new Padawan, Etain. It was interesting to see her come into her own and learn from the commandos. I liked their interactions together and you find out more about how they were trained. However, I didn't like that the author kept switching points of view during the chapter. I wish she would have wrote in one character's point of view and then switched after the chapter break. I felt the ending was rushed and didn't make complete sense. I look forward to reading Triple Zero and seeing the continuation of this unit.
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Bred from the genetic material of the legendary bounty hunter Jango Fett, clone troopers are created to be the very best soldiers in the galaxy. And the Republic commandos are the best of the best. As the Clone Wars rage, victory or defeat lies in the hands of these elite squads, stone-cold soldiers who go where no one else will, and do what no one else can....
Hard Contact: It is three months after the Battle of Geonosis. On the backwater planet Qiilura, a Separatist scientist has created a nanovirus designed to kill clone soldiers, and it will be up to four Republic commandosthe Omega Squadto apprehend her and sabotage her research. When Darman, the squad's demolitions expert, gets cut off from the others during planetfall, he meets up with Etain, a stranded Jedi Padawan who has lost her Master. He expects her to be a competent commander, but that hope vanishes once she admits to her woeful inexperience. A long dangerous journey lies ahead, through hostile territory brimming with Trandoshan slavers, Separatists and suspicious natives. A single misstep could mean discovery...and death.
Triple Zero: A year after Geonosis, the Republic commandos are being deployed on missions that take them beyond the battlefield and further into sabotage and intelligence operations in Separatist territory. Now, after a close brush with death, the Omega Squad is sent to the toughest terrain in the galaxy: Coruscant. Teaming up with Etain, now a Jedi General, and their legendary training sergeant Kal Skirata and his Null commandosa secret force even the Kaminoan cloners deem too dangerous to unleashthey pursue Separatist terrorists in the treacherous skylanes and labyrinthine underlevels of the world city. It's a critical mission unlike any they've ever tackledand it will test their courage and their friendship to the limit.
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- if you like first encounters - this will be just your cup of tea!
- Starts out with intriguing premise,
- moderately interesting
- Only mercy is that this is not a trilogy (yet)
- Twisted First Contact
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"An alien invasion tale like none you've ever read, yet chillingly relevant to our times."
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Stanley Schmidt, editor of Analog and Hugo and Nebula-nominated author of Argonaut
"Take one part Tom Clancy, one part Hal Clement, and one part Larry Niven, shake well, and you've got Edward Lerner's edge-of-your-seat day-after-tomorrow just-what-ARE-the aliens-up-to thriller, Moonstruck. It's a rollicking good read . . . the suspense never lets up. Highly recommended."
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Robert J. Sawyer, Best Novel Hugo Award winner for Hominids,
Best Novel Award winner for The Terminal Experiment
"Lerner's aliens are deceptive, conniving manipulators with their own agendas and their own self-serving definition of right and wrong. In other words, they're a lot like us. Be very afraid."
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Jerry Oltion, Nebula Award winner and author of The Getaway Special
"Moonstruck is inventive, original and ingenious, filled with well-thought-out detail which gives it scientific credibility and political plausibility. The plot pulls you in and the writing keeps you hooked right to the end."
John G. Hemry, author of A Just Determination and Burden of Proof
"Moonstruck is a rapid fire technothriller that puts fresh thrills into the first contact tale. Fast, original, and will keep you guessing to the very last page."
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Robert A. Metzger, Best Novel Nebula Award nominee for Picoverse
"Moonstruck . . . is a great mixture of classic science fiction and modern espionage stories. The characters are interesting, the plot very imaginative and the story falls into place in the reader's mind like a good movie. . . . Edward M. Lerner has given us a book that strikes not only at the heart of each of us, but reflects the best and worst of the human race while not once dipping into the clichéd, goofy or "shock for shock sake'story telling of a lesser writer."
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Customer Reviews:
if you like first encounters - this will be just your cup of tea!.......2007-02-26
A great, classic first-encounter novel for the 21st century: think Childhood's End, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and To Serve Man, served up with the cutting-edge media savvy of Jon Stewart. Lerner writes with grace, surety, humor, and political wisdom that draws on sources ranging from Damocles to Churchill. I snapped up this novel on Cape Cod Bay, and learned anew why I relish science fiction.
Starts out with intriguing premise,.......2007-01-15
Loved the first one-half of the book when earth is unaware of the motivations of the aliens (Are they here for good or evil?).
The motivation of the aliens is certainly unique but I wish Lerner had written a better second half. The plot and the characters got a little boring. And, of course, we have the obligatory love story between the hero and heroine. But I was intrigued enough to finish the book and find out how it all ends.
moderately interesting.......2006-02-09
Not a novel that will be considered great in science fiction. But Lerner does demonstrate an ingenious twist to the standard First Contact plot. It's a build out of a short story that appeared in Analog. More flesh on the bones of the characters. And an ending that goes beyond what appeared in Analog. If you never read the latter, then just knowing what I've written here, you should be able to identify where the original ending was in the story.
The action scenes are fairly limited. Not up to the combat sequences in a Weber, Ringo or Stirling book. As for the characters, I had trouble identifying with them. They seemed rather flat. But perhaps Lerner will improve over time.
Only mercy is that this is not a trilogy (yet).......2006-01-15
Half-way through the book you learn the big secret. And it's not that big and not that funny or original or moving. I kept asking myself if this was meant to be "juvenile SF" but then no younger person deserves this drivel. Hard to care about any of the characters and the supposedly cynical conceit about the the nature of media and society is poorly done. [...]
Twisted First Contact.......2005-03-24
Ed Lerner is a warped man. This book starts out as what seems to be a standard first contact novel. A huge spaceship appears and orbits the moon, and centauroid aliens called the F'thk land in Washington D.C. and tell everyone that the Earth has the potential of joining a Galactic Commonwealth.
But the protagonist of this story, science advisor Kyle Gustafson, is bothered by a multitude of little inconsistencies.
And every time you think you have a handle on what is happening, Lerner shifts the story in a direction you just can't guess.
A very fun read, and well worth your time and money. This story was serialized in Analog a couple of years ago, and I read it then. I just re-read it, and it was better than I remembered, and I thought it was good the first time.
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Manning Is Back!.......2005-04-23
In the second novel in this series, Mark Manning, ace reporter, is back with a vengence. This time he's hot on the trail of one Dr. Pavo Zarnick, alleged to have discovered a tenth planet in the earth's solar system. Are there holes in his story, for instance, is he a fraud, and if so, why? As Manning becomes more involved, he gets all caught up in a plot by the religious right-- a group called Christian Family Network-- to do bad things, i.e., the murder of the President of the United States, along with a stadium-full of other people. Manning, himself, finds his own life in danger.
There's never a dull paragraph in this thriller. The action moves quickly and the plot builds to a suspenseful climax. Mr. Manning is as handsome, muscular and as dapper as ever, drinking his Kirs, wearing his button-down shirts and driving his beloved fine automobile. His architect lover Neil is back, along with Roxanne, Manning's attorney friend.
Mr. Craft does not write mysteries where the detective does dry, rather dull problem solving to catch the bad guys. He totally engages the reader, appealing to our sense of justice and fair play, in this instance, in his attack on religious homophobic bigots. Finally, he takes a great risk here in killing off a most sympathetic character. That's gutsy and the mark of a really skilled writer.
Fascinating.......2004-10-19
The second in the series of the Mark Manning mysteries is far more engaging than the first. Mark develops more as a character and mericifully finally displays the frailties of humanity. Neil, his lover, emerges as a more substantial person. The story line takes interesting twists and turns, thereby making the mystery less predictable and more satisfying to the reader. There is absolutely more writing maturity in this offering than in FLIGHT DREAMS. Give it a try, but I recommend you begin with the first book in the series and read them in sequence. While FLIGHT DREAMS is not nearly as satisfying, it does set the tone for the series.
Great Blend of Real Life & Intrigue, With a Splash of Camp.......2004-01-21
The second book of the Mark Manning series establishes Mark and Neil in Chicago and also brings Mark head to head wih temptation. The mystery may require you to "suspend belief" on occasion, but it does not disappoint in being action-packed, suspenseful, and a thoroughly satisfying - even if your ashamed to admit - call to justice for someone.
This is a departure, to some degree, from the first novel. The series takes another turn down the line when Mark & Neil move to Wisconsin.
The cast of characters continues to evolve; they are likeable, relatable, human and you can't help but care about them. This is a thoroughly enjoyable series.
A great read.......2003-05-06
I enjoyed this book immensely. It was fast paced and real. Enough sexual tension and romance coupled with the page turning momentum of a good "who done it". I'm always sensitive to the protrayal of man 2 man relationships, and I feel that Craft does a honorable job in this regard. It will bring out all the emotions, arousal, curiousity, humor, and passion.
A startling disappointment........1999-10-09
I quite enjoyed Craft's first Mark Manning novel, "Flight Dreams," but "Eye Contact" is howlingly bad in many places. While the relationship stuff between Manning and lover Neil Waite is still solid and often touching, the author has surrounded these engaging characters with a ludicrous storyline that reveals a stunning ignorance of how newspapers work (just for starters, he has Manning plant an intentionally misleading story on the front page of his major Chicago daily to lay a trap for a bad guy -- and it gets far worse after that). The cartoonish and glaringly obvious villains would have been deemed too over-the-top on the old "Batman" series, and the painfully contrived plot is so mind-bleedingly preposterous that I found myself wondering whether Craft actually was sending up the political thriller genre. Are there two Michael Crafts? I simply can't believe this laughable tripe is from the same guy who craft-ed "Flight Dreams." (Poorly edited, too: On page 36, one character addresses another character by the first character's name.)
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This study covers the latent demand outlook for conventional hard contact lenses excluding molded lens blanks across the regions of Greater China, including provinces, autonomous regions (Guangxi, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Xizang - Tibet), municipalities (Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai, and Tianjin), special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau), and Taiwan (all hereafter referred to as “regions”). Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 1,100 cities in Greater China. For each major city in question, the percent share the city is of the region and of Greater China is reported. Each major city is defined as an area of “economic population”, as opposed to the demographic population within a legal geographic boundary. For many cities, the economic population is much larger that the population within the city limits; this is especially true for the cities of the Western regions. For the coastal regions, cities which are close to other major cities or which represent, by themselves, a high percent of the regional population, actual city-level population is closer to the economic population (e.g. in Beijing). Based on this “economic” definition of population, comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city’s marketing and distribution value vis-à-vis others. This exercise is quite useful for persons setting up distribution centers or sales force strategies. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each region and city of influence, latent demand estimates are created for conventional hard contact lenses excluding molded lens blanks. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.
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This study covers the latent demand outlook for conventional hard contact lenses excluding molded lens blanks across the states, union territories and cities of India. Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 3,600 cities in India. For each city in question, the percent share the city is of it’s state or union territory and of India as a whole is reported. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city vis-à-vis others. This statistical approach can prove very useful to distribution and/or sales force strategies. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each state or union territory and city, latent demand estimates are created for conventional hard contact lenses excluding molded lens blanks. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.
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This study covers the latent demand outlook for conventional hard contact lenses excluding molded lens blanks across the prefectures and cities of Japan. Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 1,000 cities in Japan. For each city in question, the percent share the city is of it’s prefecture and of Japan is reported. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city vis-à-vis others. This statistical approach can prove very useful to distribution and/or sales force strategies. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each prefecture and city, latent demand estimates are created for conventional hard contact lenses excluding molded lens blanks. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.
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This study covers the latent demand outlook for conventional hard contact lenses excluding molded lens blanks across the states and cities of the United States. Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 8,700 cities in the United States. For each city in question, the percent share the city is of it’s state and of the United States is reported. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city vis-à-vis others. This statistical approach can prove very useful to distribution and/or sales force strategies. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each state and city, latent demand estimates are created for conventional hard contact lenses excluding molded lens blanks. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.
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This study covers the world outlook for conventional hard contact lenses excluding molded lens blanks across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the country in question (in millions of U.S. dollars), the percent share the country is of the region and of the globe. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a country vis-à-vis others. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each country and across countries, latent demand estimates are created. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.
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The Concept of Analytic Contact: The Kleinian Approach to Reaching the Hard to Reach Patient
Waska
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The Concept of Analytic Contact presents practitioners with new ways to assist the often severely disturbed patients that come to see them in both private and institutional settings. In this book Robert Waska outlines the use of psychoanalysis as a method of engagement that can be utilised with or without the addition of multiple weekly visits and the analytic couch.
The chapters in this book follow a wide spectrum of cases and clinical situations where hard to reach patients are provided with the best opportunity for health and healing through the establishment of analytic contact. Divided into four parts, this book covers:
- the concept of analytic contact
- caution and reluctance concerning psychological engagement
- drugs, Mutilation, and Psychic Fragmentation
- clinical reality, psychoanalysis and the utility of analytic contact.
Analytic contact is demonstrated to be a valuable clinical approach to working analytically with a complicated group of patients in a successful manner. It will be of great interest to all practitioners in the field of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
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Peterson's eloquent meditation on the Revelation of St. John engages the imagination and awakens the intellect to the vitality and relevance of the last words on scripture, Christ, church, worship, evil, prayer, witness, politics, judgement, salvation, and heaven.
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Christian worship.......2007-07-03
This is the best "pastoral commentary" on the book of Revelation I have read. The author has a clear overall picture of the book and has the writing skills to express what he sees. He relegates the various confusing symbols to their rightful place, ie. to high-light the overall message about Jesus. I have begun to present this book as gifts to kindred-hearts.
A Real Revelation.......2006-06-16
"Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination" is the most significant treatment of the book of Revelation that I have read (or indirectly experienced through such books as the "Left Behind" series). Eugene Peterson, himself a pastor, always works from the understanding that John was also a pastor, separated from his small, beleaguered churches as he endured exile on the isle of Patmos. John was writing to communities gathered around Word and Sacrament; communities that gathered to pray and ponder the Word of God; communities that struggled to live faithfully in the midst of a society that was dangerous, decadent, despotic, and demonic.
Peterson examines the book of Revelation as a series of "last words" upon various themes in Scripture: Christ, sin, power, the Church, worship, etc. They are poetic, imaginative, pastoral, and sometimes cryptic reflections and summations of what has already been treated elsewhere in Scripture. Thus Revelation does not merely quote Daniel and Ezekiel directly, but alludes to their images (often almost literally) while setting them in the context of the Church; the person, work, and lordship of Christ; and the final triumph of God over all that would seek to oppose him and destroy his people.
Peterson downplays the "future foretelling" that is so prevalent in many works by some interpreters and popularizers of Revelation. He believes that an overly literal "timetable" reading of the book distorts its message, flattens its poetry, and ignores its deep pastoral heart. On the other hand, Peterson never simply "explains away" or dismisses some of the difficult, often bizarre imagery of the book. Rather he strives to show how John, a faithful theologian, pastor and poet of the Church, used those images to grip the imagination and strengthen the nerve and the faith of his hearers.
Peterson's writing is both "meaty" enough for most pastors, and accessible enough for most interested laypersons. It is the one treatment of Revelation that I have unreservedly and enthusiastically recommended to both categories of readers; AND it is one of the few books that I've underlined lengthy passages and dog-eared just about every other page. Not only that - it's one I return to for the sheer pleasure of reading it.
Devotional study of Revelation.......2006-05-02
I'm not sure I would have said that you could read and understand Revelation as a "devotional" book, but with Peterson's insights I can now say it. Revelation is a wonderful study and adventure as you take along this book as your guide. You will find that it will inspire you to prayer, worship, devotion, repentance, and hope as you read through Reversed Thunder.
Everyone needs to have this in their library not for the didactics but for the amazing devotional that it is. I highly recommend this read.
Revelation.......2006-03-18
recommend this book because it addess the number one problem in USA Christians - head knowledge over heart knowledge - the Bible is the writen Word made Flesh and still lives among us - that we can have a personal relationship with Jesus - I have not finished the book BUT what I read has me moved to live a life to Him - if you are looking for a book on time tables about the end - this is not for you
More proof that eschatology matters now.......2006-02-19
Over the past year, Eugene Peterson has become my favorite author (along with Dietrich Bonhoeffer and John Piper). After reading Peterson's books Run With the Horses (the life of Jeremiah) and Where Your Treasure Is (the Psalms), I was eager to read more by him. I was not disappointed by this book.
Peterson sets off at the beginning to lay down the truth that the Apocalypse was not written as a treatise on "things that must soon take place," to be analyzed for chronology and fulfillment. Rather, it was written by a caring pastor guiding his people through the threat of caesar-worship. It is a book solely about the distant future, but a collection of poetic images that serve to evoke hope and order in the present churches of Ephesus. I am so grateful that Peterson emphasizes the fact that all apocalyptic is meant to be practical in the here-and-now. "Eschatology is the most pastoral of all the theological perspectives, showing how the ending impinges on the present in such ways that the truth of the gospel is verified in life 'in the middle'" (9). "There are predictive elements in some prophecy (and some in the Revelation), but they are always in service to a present message" (21).
Peterson walks through a chapter or two of the Revelation at a time, keeping in mind the three inseparable roles of John as he writes what is revealed to him: pastor, poet, and theologian. For Peterson, real theology is only seen and understood as it is worked out in our daily living; all theology is imminently practical. Just like the Apostle in his day, Peterson lives to combat the Gnostic duality that embraces the "spiritual" as something belonging to another world or sphere, and not upsetting our finely crafted lives.
If Peterson sees any unifying theme or purpose behind the images of the Revelation, it is undeniably WORSHIP. Worship--the fitting participation of God's people in response to his actions--is for God's people a taste of heaven even now. Worship matters: it orients our lives to God and keeps us hopeful. Failed worship--focusing on what people are doing rather than God--leads to chaos. "Worship is the essential and central act of the Christian. . . . Worship is the act of giving committed attention to the being and action of God. The Christian life is posited on the faith that God is in action" (140-41).
The book, though, is not without its flaws. Taking perhaps a bit too much poetic license in interpreting the visions, I believe Peterson often sees things in Scripture that, while they may ultimately be correct, are simply not evident from the text itself. For example, in reference to the "sea of glass", he writes of how this is clearly a reference to the baptismal font (63). All in all, though, this is an illuminating, stirring, and utterly pastoral reading of the New Testament's final book. With discernment--and do understand, this is NOT a commentary--this book will make an excellent aid to anyone wanting to learn more about the Revelation.
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