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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... Testament , is the “ accuser , " the power of accusation and the power of the process resulting in blaming and eliminating a substitute for the real cause of the community's troubles . That real cause is the contagion of mimetic desire ...
... Testament , is the “ accuser , " the power of accusation and the power of the process resulting in blaming and eliminating a substitute for the real cause of the community's troubles . That real cause is the contagion of mimetic desire ...
Pagina xix
... Testament Gospels are the starting point for a new science or knowledge of humanity . This new knowledge begins with faith in Christ the in- nocent victim , and it becomes the leaven that will work itself out and expand to the point ...
... Testament Gospels are the starting point for a new science or knowledge of humanity . This new knowledge begins with faith in Christ the in- nocent victim , and it becomes the leaven that will work itself out and expand to the point ...
Pagina 13
... Testament . If Jesus never speaks in terms of prohibitions and always in terms of models and imitation , it is because he draws out the full conse- quences of the lesson offered by the tenth commandment . It is not due to inflated self ...
... Testament . If Jesus never speaks in terms of prohibitions and always in terms of models and imitation , it is because he draws out the full conse- quences of the lesson offered by the tenth commandment . It is not due to inflated self ...
Pagina 26
... Testament but also to an event reported at length in the Gospels themselves , the execution of the one the Gospels regard as " the last of the prophets , ” John the Baptist . IF JOHN THE BAPTIST is a prophet , then to 26 The Biblical ...
... Testament but also to an event reported at length in the Gospels themselves , the execution of the one the Gospels regard as " the last of the prophets , ” John the Baptist . IF JOHN THE BAPTIST is a prophet , then to 26 The Biblical ...
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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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