I See Satan Fall Like Lightning Christian Mission - Biography / Autobiography and spiritual warfare) to missionaries

and spiritual warfare) to missionaries and prospective missionaries

is professor of doctrinal theology at Catholic Theological Union

Peter Henriot

Meinrad's Abbey in Indiana whose many books include the award-winning Black Catholics in the United States

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 and spiritual warfare) to missionariesRene 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