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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... false unanimity that puts only a tem- porary end to collective violence . He is an unsuccessful scapegoat whose heroic willingness to die for the truth will ultimately make the entire cycle of satanic violence visible to all people and ...
... false unanimity that puts only a tem- porary end to collective violence . He is an unsuccessful scapegoat whose heroic willingness to die for the truth will ultimately make the entire cycle of satanic violence visible to all people and ...
Pagina 7
... false witness against your neighbor . The tenth and last commandment is distinguished from those pre- ceding it both by its length and its object : in place of prohibiting an act it forbids a desire . You shall not covet the house of ...
... false witness against your neighbor . The tenth and last commandment is distinguished from those pre- ceding it both by its length and its object : in place of prohibiting an act it forbids a desire . You shall not covet the house of ...
Pagina 8
... false , all we have to do is to watch two children or two adults who quarrel over some trifle . It is the opposite premise , the only realistic one , that underlies the tenth commandment of the Deca- logue : we tend to desire what our ...
... false , all we have to do is to watch two children or two adults who quarrel over some trifle . It is the opposite premise , the only realistic one , that underlies the tenth commandment of the Deca- logue : we tend to desire what our ...
Pagina 12
... false witness . If we respected the tenth commandment , the four commandments that precede it would be superfluous . Rather than beginning with the cause and pursuing then the consequences , like a philosophical account , the Decalogue ...
... false witness . If we respected the tenth commandment , the four commandments that precede it would be superfluous . Rather than beginning with the cause and pursuing then the consequences , like a philosophical account , the Decalogue ...
Pagina 14
... false models of the independent self that cannot be wounded or defeated . Far from making ourselves independent and autonomous , we give ourselves over to never ending rivalries . The commandment to imitate Jesus does not appear ...
... false models of the independent self that cannot be wounded or defeated . Far from making ourselves independent and autonomous , we give ourselves over to never ending rivalries . The commandment to imitate Jesus does not appear ...
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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