Facing Apocalypse: Climate, democracy, and other last chances MARYKNOLL, N.Y. — Over the centuries Saint John’s Apocalypse, or the Book of Revelation, has maintained its climactic position in the Christian canon. The final book of the Christian Bible, it has fascinated readers, artists, and scholars with its terrifying imagery and portents of earth’s final days. Today, threatened with our own distinctively “apocalyptic” moment, Catherine Keller, George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology at Drew University, Madison, NJ, offers a reading of John’s text through the lens of impending climate havoc, with all its systemic social intersections. While the synchronicity of the ancient imagery with the ecological breakdown of our own time might give one pause, as Keller notes, the meaning of “apocalypse” is not “the end,” but “unveiling.”