Investigation into the end of the world: “Armageddon has become a banal metaphor for catastrophe”

In Armageddon. A story of the end of the world, the theologian Régis Burnet and Pierre-Edouard
Detal analyze what this event is called and how its story has persisted over time, feeding in each period on the fears of its time.

The flames of a purifying fire on an earth seized by infernal tremors which open the ground. A sky of blood and ashes of flesh. Behind collapsed mountains, the roar of the “Beast”. The end of…