by Frank Imhoff, ELCA News Service
The Discovery Times cable television channel plans to air "The
Rapture" several times beginning Jan. 31 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time.
For the program, producers interviewed the Rev. Barbara R.
Rossing, professor of New Testament, Lutheran School of Theology
at Chicago, and author of "The Rapture Exposed: The Message of
Hope in the Book of Revelation."
The program description reads: "Explore the growing religious
belief in the rapture, the taking up of the saved into heaven
before the end of the world. Once only a belief of Evangelicals,
the rapture has spread beyond the Christian community into the
secular world."
In her book, Rossing called the rapture a "destructive racket."
She wrote, "There is no rapture in the story of Revelation, no
snatching of people off the earth up to heaven. Look at it this
way: it is God who is raptured down to earth to take up residence
and dwell with us -- a rapture in reverse."
The Discovery Times: http://times.discovery.com/
The Rapture:
http://times.discovery.com/tvlistings/episode.jsp?episode=0&cpi=1
16080&gid=0&channel=DTC
The Rev. Barbara Rossing:
http://www.lstc.edu/people/faculty/individual/rossing.html
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago: http://www.lstc.edu
The Rapture Exposed:
http://www.augsburgfortress.org/store/searchresults.asp?searchTyp
e=all&searchstring=The+Rapture+Exposed&classificationID=-
1&x=14&y=11
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