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Politics & apocalypse /
Apocalypse. To most, the word signifies destruction, death, the end of the world, but the literal definition is ""revelation"" or ""unveiling, "" the basis from which renowned theologian René Girard builds his own view of Biblical apocalypse. Properly underst...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Apocalypse. To most, the word signifies destruction, death, the end of the world, but the literal definition is ""revelation"" or ""unveiling, "" the basis from which renowned theologian René Girard builds his own view of Biblical apocalypse. Properly understood, Girard explains, Biblical apocalypse has nothing to do with a wrathful or vengeful God punishing his unworthy children, and everything to do with a foretelling of what future humans are making for themselves now that they have devised the instruments of global self-destruction. In this volume, some of the major thinkers about the inte |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (266 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781609170417 1609170415 9781628961058 1628961058 9781628951059 1628951052 |