I See Satan Fall Like Lightning Christian Mission - Biography / Autobiography as well as on the

as well as on the pervasiveness of the problems that sustain the need for it

and spiritual warfare) to missionaries and prospective missionaries

is professor of doctrinal theology at Catholic Theological Union

including the powers in Rome

the writers then explore the origins of apocalyptic writing in (among other places) the book of Daniel

I See Satan Fall Like Lightning Christian Mission - Biography / Autobiography as well as on theRene Girard holds up the gospels as a mirror to reflect our broken humanity and, in the same frame, they reveal the new reality that can make us whole. Like Simone Weil, Girard looks at the Bible as a map of human behavior, and sees Jesus Christ as its compass, pointing us in the right direction regardless of where we start. The title echoes Jesus' words (Luke 10: 18): I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven. Girard persuades the reader that