TY - BOOK AU - Forrester,Duncan B. TI - Apocalypse now?: reflections on faith in a time of terror SN - 9780754687795 AV - BT736.15 .F67 2005eb U1 - 261.8/73 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Aldershot, Hants, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Terrorism KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Violence KW - Church and social problems KW - Terrorisme KW - Aspect religieux KW - Christianisme KW - Église et problèmes sociaux KW - RELIGION KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Christian Life KW - Social Issues KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-136) and index; Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Two 'Terrible Manifestos'?; 1 Vexed by a Rocking Cradle; 2 Things Fall Apart: The Long, Bloody Twentieth Century; 3 After the Cold War: The End of Ideology?; 4 The Public Voice of Resurgent Religion; 5 The Rebirth of Apocalyptic; 6 Conflicting Virtues: Saints or Heroes?; 7 Virtues in Conflict; 8 Just War and Just Peacemaking; Epilogue: Forgiveness and Reconciliation; Postscript: Tsunami Now?; Bibliography; Index; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - In Apocalypse Now?, Duncan Forrester argues that disorders and atrocities including the Gulag, the Holocaust, 9/11, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and the Tsunami disaster have shown us that we stand in the midst of an apocalyptic age of terror with striking similarities to the time in which Christianity was born. He asks how religious ideas can play a positive role in the midst of conflicts and disasters and argues that there are huge resources in the Christian tradition that can be productively deployed for a constructive and faithful response UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=270469 ER -