Politics & apocalypse

by Hamerton-Kelly, Robert

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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 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 …

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  • Full title :Politics & apocalypse / Robert Hamerton-Kelly, editor.

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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 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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  • Publication Date:©2007.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 ressource en ligne (266 p.).

Edition Identifiers

  • oclc:ocn872445840
  • LC Classification:BL503
  • Dewey Decimal:901

Table of Contents

Table of Contents; An Introductory Essay -- Robert Hamerton-Kelly ; The Evangelical Subversion of Myth -- René Girard ; "Denial of the Apocalypse" versus "Fascination with the Final Days": Current Theological Discussion of Apocalyptic Thinking inthe Perspective of Mimetic Theory -- Józef Niewiadomski ; Carl Schmitt's "Apocalyptic" Resistance against Global Civil War -- Wolfgang Palaver ; Philosophy, History, and Apocalypse in Voegelin, Strauss, and Girard -- Fred Lawrence ; Modernity and the Jewish Question: What Leo Strauss Learned from Nietzsche -- John Ranieri.

The Straussian Moment -- Peter ThielUnderstanding in Quest of Faith: The Central Problem in Eric Voegelin's Philosophy -- Stefan Rossbach; Contributors.

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Subjects

End of the world Fin du monde Histoire -- Aspect religieux History -- Religious aspects Livres électroniques Religion and politics Religion et politique

Writers

Hamerton-Kelly, Robert

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