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 12
... appear arbitrary stem neither from some sort of " neurosis " nor from the resentment of grumpy men eager to prevent young people from having a good time . The prohibitions have nothing of the capricious or the mean about them ; they are ...
... appear arbitrary stem neither from some sort of " neurosis " nor from the resentment of grumpy men eager to prevent young people from having a good time . The prohibitions have nothing of the capricious or the mean about them ; they are ...
Pagina 14
... appear suddenly in a world exempt from imitation ; rather it is addressed to everyone that mimetic rivalry has affected . Non - Christians imagine that to be converted they must renounce an autonomy that all people possess naturally , a ...
... appear suddenly in a world exempt from imitation ; rather it is addressed to everyone that mimetic rivalry has affected . Non - Christians imagine that to be converted they must renounce an autonomy that all people possess naturally , a ...
Pagina 16
... appears that the person continually collides with his or her own shadow . Understanding this strange phenomenon depends upon seeing in it what I have just described : the behavior of mimetic rivals who , as they mutually prevent each ...
... appears that the person continually collides with his or her own shadow . Understanding this strange phenomenon depends upon seeing in it what I have just described : the behavior of mimetic rivals who , as they mutually prevent each ...
Pagina 20
... appears . In refusing the mimetic interpretation , in looking for the failure of Peter in purely individual causes , we attempt to demon- strate , unconsciously of course , that in Peter's place we would have responded differently ; we ...
... appears . In refusing the mimetic interpretation , in looking for the failure of Peter in purely individual causes , we attempt to demon- strate , unconsciously of course , that in Peter's place we would have responded differently ; we ...
Pagina 21
... appears contrary to both the spirit and the letter of the Gospels . There is nothing in the Gospels to suggest that God causes the mob to come together against Jesus . Violent contagion is enough . Those responsible for the Passion are ...
... appears contrary to both the spirit and the letter of the Gospels . There is nothing in the Gospels to suggest that God causes the mob to come together against Jesus . Violent contagion is enough . Those responsible for the Passion are ...
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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