I See Satan Fall Like LightningOrbis 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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Pagina ix
... Christian tradition disclose . This understanding of humankind he articulates is an anthropology ( " anthropologos , " or discourse about what it means to be human ) . Girard's anthropology focuses first on desire and its consequences ...
... Christian tradition disclose . This understanding of humankind he articulates is an anthropology ( " anthropologos , " or discourse about what it means to be human ) . Girard's anthropology focuses first on desire and its consequences ...
Pagina x
... Christ , which occurs through their experience of Jesus ' resurrection . Their conversion and the resurrection of Christ are two aspects of the same event . To introduce the reader to what Girard offers in this , his most recent , book ...
... Christ , which occurs through their experience of Jesus ' resurrection . Their conversion and the resurrection of Christ are two aspects of the same event . To introduce the reader to what Girard offers in this , his most recent , book ...
Pagina xiii
... Christian origins to another myth because of sim- ilarities between Jesus ' death and resurrection and the dying and rising of the gods in classical and ancient Near Eastern myths . ( 1 ) Myths disguise real violence . Comparative ...
... Christian origins to another myth because of sim- ilarities between Jesus ' death and resurrection and the dying and rising of the gods in classical and ancient Near Eastern myths . ( 1 ) Myths disguise real violence . Comparative ...
Pagina xiv
... Christian Eucharist , in which believers consume the body and blood of Christ . Girard argues , however , that the sim- ilarities serve essentially to point up the differences . The Passion . account in the Gospels does not adopt the ...
... Christian Eucharist , in which believers consume the body and blood of Christ . Girard argues , however , that the sim- ilarities serve essentially to point up the differences . The Passion . account in the Gospels does not adopt the ...
Pagina xix
... Christ the in- nocent victim , and it becomes the leaven that will work itself out and expand to the point that the concern for victims becomes the absolute value in all societies molded or affected by the spread of Christianity . 10 ...
... Christ the in- nocent victim , and it becomes the leaven that will work itself out and expand to the point that the concern for victims becomes the absolute value in all societies molded or affected by the spread of Christianity . 10 ...
Cuprins
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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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