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The Quiet Hour · Calloway
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Politics & apocalypse
Robert Hamerton-Kelly
2007 · English
End of the worldReligion and politicsReligious aspectsHistory11 september-attackerna 2001
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"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 Rene 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…
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