I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

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Orbis Books, 1 ian. 2001 - 199 pagini
Rene Girard holds up the gospels as mirrors that reveal our broken humanity, and shows that they also reflect a 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 the turning point leading to new life.

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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