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God, Order, and Chaos: René Girard and the Apocalypse is unavailable, but you can change that!

Readers are often disturbed by the images of destruction in the book of Revelation and unsure why they are unleashed after the exaltation of Jesus. This book examines past approaches to these texts and uses René Girard’s theories to revive some old ideas and propose some new ones.

consistency, which produces the apparent problem in the first place. Irenaeus certainly uses texts from Revelation as proof texts for the unique status of Jesus. Some of these come from the sections which include chaos imagery. For example, he uses texts from Revelation, including 5–8, in this way.35 However, he makes little reference to the context and it is difficult to demonstrate that there is any consistent reading behind the texts. Helms argues that the reading is Christological but there is
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