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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... sense , the gods of mythology are the product of Satan , of the working of accusation and the victim mechanism . Mythology is a justification of sacrifice for the sake of retribution and the victim mechanism . The Christian gospel is a ...
... sense , the gods of mythology are the product of Satan , of the working of accusation and the victim mechanism . Mythology is a justification of sacrifice for the sake of retribution and the victim mechanism . The Christian gospel is a ...
Pagina 1
... sense : their frequent physical blemishes and their foreign identities - Oedipus limps ; he comes from Corinth - and also the other features that are known to polarize angry mobs against their possessors . All these features must be as ...
... sense : their frequent physical blemishes and their foreign identities - Oedipus limps ; he comes from Corinth - and also the other features that are known to polarize angry mobs against their possessors . All these features must be as ...
Pagina 13
... sense of Thomas à Kempis and his celebrated Imitation of Christ , as admirable as that work may be . What Jesus invites us to imitate is his own desire , the spirit that directs him toward the goal on which his intention is fixed : to ...
... sense of Thomas à Kempis and his celebrated Imitation of Christ , as admirable as that work may be . What Jesus invites us to imitate is his own desire , the spirit that directs him toward the goal on which his intention is fixed : to ...
Pagina 20
... sense . Resorting to a psychological explanation is less innocent than it appears . In refusing the mimetic interpretation , in looking for the failure of Peter in purely individual causes , we attempt to demon- strate , unconsciously ...
... sense . Resorting to a psychological explanation is less innocent than it appears . In refusing the mimetic interpretation , in looking for the failure of Peter in purely individual causes , we attempt to demon- strate , unconsciously ...
Pagina 22
... sense of reprisals , of course , not of peaceful interaction . The more the antagonists desire to become different from each other , the more they become identical . Identity is realized in the hatred of the identical . This is the ...
... sense of reprisals , of course , not of peaceful interaction . The more the antagonists desire to become different from each other , the more they become identical . Identity is realized in the hatred of the identical . This is the ...
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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