Apocalypse now? : reflections on faith in a time of terror /
In Apocalypse Now?, Duncan Forrester argues that disorders and atrocities including the Gulag, the Holocaust, 9/11, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and the Tsunami disaster have shown us that we stand in the midst of an apocalyptic age of terror with striking similarities to the time in which Christi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
©2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | In Apocalypse Now?, Duncan Forrester argues that disorders and atrocities including the Gulag, the Holocaust, 9/11, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and the Tsunami disaster have shown us that we stand in the midst of an apocalyptic age of terror with striking similarities to the time in which Christianity was born. He asks how religious ideas can play a positive role in the midst of conflicts and disasters and argues that there are huge resources in the Christian tradition that can be productively deployed for a constructive and faithful response. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 142 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-136) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780754687795 0754687791 0754652734 9780754652731 1351957775 9781351957779 9781138410480 1138410489 9781315262345 1315262347 9781281893987 1281893986 9786611893989 6611893989 |