God, Order and Chaos: René Girard and the Apocalypse. By Stephen Finamore
In this provocative and stimulating monograph, a revision of his Oxford D.Phil. thesis, Stephen Finamore offers a reading of the Apocalypse through the lens of the French philosopher and literary critic René Girard. The Apocalypse may seem to some a surprising choice for a Girardian reading, given t...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 724-727 |
| Review of: | God, order and chaos (Milton Keynes [u.a.] : Paternoster, 2009) (Boxall, Ian)
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| Summary: | In this provocative and stimulating monograph, a revision of his Oxford D.Phil. thesis, Stephen Finamore offers a reading of the Apocalypse through the lens of the French philosopher and literary critic René Girard. The Apocalypse may seem to some a surprising choice for a Girardian reading, given that it appears most readily associated with the culture of violence which Girard's theory claims to unmask. Yet, as the reception history of this text suggests, Revelation has had the paradoxical capacity to shed light on the hidden violence of this world, and often functioned as a voice for the otherwise voiceless victims of human societies., The particular focus of Finamore's study is on the plague sequences of Revelation, especially the opening of the seven seals in Rev. 6:1 – 8:1. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flr073 |