Clifford T. Winters, Ph.D. (2018), Asbury Theological Seminary, is Adjunct Professor of Family Ministries at Barclay College in Haviland, Kansas, and Teaching Pastor at New England Chapel in Franklin, Massachusetts. He has pastored for twenty years, and is the author of several articles, including "A Strange Death: Cosmic Conflagration as Conceptual Metaphor in 2 Peter 3:6-13" in Conversations with the Biblical World (2013), and "Gehenna" in the Lexham Bible Dictionary.

In Revelation's history, scholars have always assumed God's violence was judgment. In Argument is War, however, Clifford T. Winters demonstrates that the "war" is using a conceptual metaphor to envision the restoration of Israel and, through them, the whole world.