
Lecture VII: The One Who Withholds | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
The End Is Not Near, the End Is Here
"Exact eschatological predictions are, I think, are not good for much beyond humor and retrospect," he says. In 1815 the Congress of Vienna was still able to put an end to the War of the Six Coalition. Violence can no longer be checked; that era is over according to Gerard. "What is Gerard's work but the last preaching of the gospel for an unreceptive world? The end is not near, the end is here."
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