Beatrice Marovich

The Dove and the Dragon

History & Biography

“How did the apocalypse become a theological idea that wields more cultural influence over modernity than God? Ed Simon seeks an answer to this question, tracing the elusive double-edged sword of apocalyptic thought: gentle like a dove, yet violent as a dragon. His ambitious and insightful apocalyptic history illuminates our enduring, and yet never more relevant, obsession with the end of the world.”