Author Description

Beyond Malignant Materialism: Revelations of a Glorious New Apocalypse by Dr John Able 2009 is a provocative fresh Parallel Interpretation of the Apocalypse (Book of Revelation) containing 56 informative illustrations. The author is a retired intensive-care physician. Using Baha'i sources, Able decodes the Book of Revelation as a multi-millennial pre-history of seven Empires and seven Faiths emerging out of the Middle East, leading into the sad events now crescendoing fast and furious across the planet. He argues cogently that these Empires and Faiths and their materialism and militarism have caused the mess that the world is in. Today these events center on the apocalyptic war waging between the beast of Muslim Militarism that drives the Middle East and the Babylon of Malignant Materialism that drives the Christian West. The fall of the Babylon of Malignant Materialism is inevitable, and has begun as the economic chaos now spiraling the globe into a paralytic depression. The good news is that spiritual economics will result, will fix the mess, and will turn these painful end times into wonderful beginning times. Ables Beyond Malignant Materialism is a profound and astonishing work in biblical exegesisa real tour de force. It is a strikingly original, scholarly, remarkably holistic, comprehensive, and rationally consistent interpretation of the Apocalypse. His book intelligently probes and penetrates many of the great religious mysteries, arguing that Revelation extends far beyond its strictly Middle East Christic origin. It transcends religious dogma, bridges religious faiths, and explains nineteen hundred years of troubled events in Christianity and Islam with amazing clarity and prescience. It is amazingly detailed and thorough. The author's stylish rhetoric is colorful and alive and his book beautifully crafted and researched, making for an engaging, enlightening, and thought-provoking read. At the end a scholarly Translation Section decodes original Greek and H