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 xii
... contagion of mimetic desire , which triggers the need for release from disorder , and this need in turn triggers the identifi- cation of a victim , someone who is weak or in some way marginal enough that the community can eliminate him ...
... contagion of mimetic desire , which triggers the need for release from disorder , and this need in turn triggers the identifi- cation of a victim , someone who is weak or in some way marginal enough that the community can eliminate him ...
Pagina xiii
... contagion and disorder . This fact is joined by another : the crisis is ended by violence , specifically the lynching of a victim . The lynching is covered and disguised due to the belief that lies at the very origin of the myths : the ...
... contagion and disorder . This fact is joined by another : the crisis is ended by violence , specifically the lynching of a victim . The lynching is covered and disguised due to the belief that lies at the very origin of the myths : the ...
Pagina 17
... contagion.2 " Woe to the one by whom scandal comes ! " Jesus reserves his most solemn warning for the adults who seduce children into the infernal prison of scandal . The more the imitation is innocent and trusting , the more the one ...
... contagion.2 " Woe to the one by whom scandal comes ! " Jesus reserves his most solemn warning for the adults who seduce children into the infernal prison of scandal . The more the imitation is innocent and trusting , the more the one ...
Pagina 19
... contagion . In the Gospels all themes lead to the Passion . Scandals play a role too important to escape from this law of convergence toward a single victim . Peter is the most spectacular example of mimetic contagion . His love for ...
... contagion . In the Gospels all themes lead to the Passion . Scandals play a role too important to escape from this law of convergence toward a single victim . Peter is the most spectacular example of mimetic contagion . His love for ...
Pagina 20
... contagion that does not spare any of the witnesses of the Passion , Peter is not distinguished from any of the other disciples in a psychological sense . Resorting to a psychological explanation is less innocent than it appears . In ...
... contagion that does not spare any of the witnesses of the Passion , Peter is not distinguished from any of the other disciples in a psychological sense . Resorting to a psychological explanation is less innocent than it appears . In ...
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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