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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... conflict , and this conflict frequently leads to violence . The Bible unveils this process of imitative desire leading to conflict and vio- lence , and its distinctive narratives reveal at the same time that God takes the part of ...
... conflict , and this conflict frequently leads to violence . The Bible unveils this process of imitative desire leading to conflict and vio- lence , and its distinctive narratives reveal at the same time that God takes the part of ...
Pagina xi
... conflict and violence . 2. How does mimetic desire lead to conflict and violence ? Answer : If our desire to be like a model is strong enough , if we identify with that person closely enough , we will want to have what the model has or ...
... conflict and violence . 2. How does mimetic desire lead to conflict and violence ? Answer : If our desire to be like a model is strong enough , if we identify with that person closely enough , we will want to have what the model has or ...
Pagina xv
... conflict and violence . They killed or expelled this person . Indeed , we know that two kinds of practice or enactment emerged over time as the human ability to represent acts and thoughts be- came stronger . One was a ritual whose ...
... conflict and violence . They killed or expelled this person . Indeed , we know that two kinds of practice or enactment emerged over time as the human ability to represent acts and thoughts be- came stronger . One was a ritual whose ...
Pagina 7
... conflicts that has gone largely un- recognized . In order to grasp how old it is we must go back to the Fall in Genesis or to the second half of the Ten Commandments , which is entirely devoted to prohibiting violence against one's ...
... conflicts that has gone largely un- recognized . In order to grasp how old it is we must go back to the Fall in Genesis or to the second half of the Ten Commandments , which is entirely devoted to prohibiting violence against one's ...
Pagina 9
... conflict . This phenomenon is so common , so well known to us , and so contrary to our concept of ourselves , thus so humiliating , that we prefer to remove it from consciousness and act as if it did not exist . But all the while we ...
... conflict . This phenomenon is so common , so well known to us , and so contrary to our concept of ourselves , thus so humiliating , that we prefer to remove it from consciousness and act as if it did not exist . But all the while we ...
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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