I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

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Gracewing Publishing, 2001 - 199 pagini
The title echoes Jesus' words: "I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven." Girard persuades us that even as our world grows increasingly violent the power of the Christ-event is so great that the evils of scapegoating and sacrifice are being defeated even now. A new community, God's nonviolent kingdom, is being realized - even now.
 

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Introduction
1
The Horrible Miracle of Apollonius of Tyana
49
Mythology
62
Sacrifice
71
The Founding Murder
82
Powers and Principalities
95
The Uniqueness of the Bible
103
The Uniqueness of the Gospels
121
The Triumph of the Cross
137
Scapegoat
154
The Modern Concern for Victims
161
The Twofold Nietzschean Heritage
170
Conclusion
182
Index
195
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René Girard was born on December 25, 1923 in Avignon, France. He received an advanced degree in medieval studies at the École Nationale des Chartes in 1947 and a Ph.D. in history from Indiana University in 1950. He taught French language and literature at Indiana University, Duke University, Bryn Mawr College, Johns Hopkins University, and the State University at Buffalo. He taught at Stanford University from 1981 until his retirement in 1995. His explorations of literature and myth helped establish influential theories about how people are motivated to want things. His first book, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, was published in French in 1961 and in English in 1965. His other works included Violence and the Sacred and Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World. He received a lifetime achievement award from the Modern Language Association in 2009 and the Order of Isabella the Catholic from the king of Spain for his work in philosophy and anthropology in 2013. He died on November 4, 2015 at the age of 91.

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