The Apocalypse of Saint John, history of salvation

This article offers a theological meditation on the Apocalypse of Saint John, read as a narrative of the history of human salvation. The author, a Lebanese in exile, adopts a deliberately concrete and historically focused approach to the text's implications, setting aside both catastrophist readings and esoteric interpretations. The central idea is that the Apocalypse, far from being a text removed from the world, deeply anchors Christian existence in history, between the "already" of the Resurrection and the "not yet" of the Parousia. The author surveys the book in its entirety, identifying its major structural articulations: the vocation of the Christian, the role of the Church, the struggle against evil, and the eschatological transfiguration of the world. On the theological level, the article upholds an Orthodox vision of the people of God, in which the laity and religious life interpenetrate, and in which human history is traversed and transfigured by divine eternity.