God, Order, and Chaos: Rene Girard and the Apocalypse (Paternoster Biblical Monographs) - Softcover

Finamore, Stephen

 
9781606086049: God, Order, and Chaos: Rene Girard and the Apocalypse (Paternoster Biblical Monographs)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1606086049 ISBN 13: 9781606086049
Verlag: Wipf and Stock, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The ideas of Rene Girard are having a profound effect on Christian theology. This book offers a critical introduction to his thought and then uses it to interpret the Book of Revelation. The result is a reading of extraordinary relevance for the contemporary world. Readers of the Apocalypse are often disturbed by the images of destruction in the book and are unsure why these are unleashed after the exaltation of Jesus. This study examines past approaches to these texts and uses Girard's theories to revive some old ideas and propose some new ones. Seen in this light the Apocalypse becomes the story of the ultimate vindication of the victim, a source of hope, and a resource that can be used both to encourage resistance to the destructive forces within culture, and to help the church and the poor to engage constructively with the issues of our day.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stephen Finamore has been a lawyer, led a community development project in inner London, spent three years supporting rural development in the Andes, and served ten years as pastor of a local church. He holds a degree in law from the London School of Economics and an MA and DPhil in theology from Oxford, and is Principal of Bristol Baptist College. He is married to Rebecca and their two daughters are Debbie and Jenny.

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Verlag
Wipf and Stock
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1606086049
ISBN 13 
9781606086049
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
318
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