The Revelation-Inspiration of the Book of Revelation: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach

Abstract

The direct involvement of the divine element in the generation of the book of Rev
elation, most biblical scholars recognize or affirm it unequivocally, whether as a the
ophanic reality or literary artifice. However, the specific ways the divine and human 
parts intervened in generating thought and information in Revelation-and in the 
Scriptures in general-remain an important epistemological challenge for contempo
rary theology. Due to the epistemological nature of this task, the present study ad
dresses the problem concerning the divine-human generation of the Revelation and 
its modus operandi specifically, from a cognitive linguistic approach, an integrated 
approach in which the dynamic cognitive processes of conceptual, linguistic, textual, 
cultural, and historical complexes can be examined in their interconnectivity. This 
article concludes that the revelation-inspiration of the book of Revelation as a source 
of theological data is linguistic-cognitive and historical.