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 ix
... first on desire and its consequences . He calls it " mimetic desire " or " mimesis . " It's a desire that comes into being through imitation of others . These others we imitate Girard calls " models , " models of desire . He has also ...
... first on desire and its consequences . He calls it " mimetic desire " or " mimesis . " It's a desire that comes into being through imitation of others . These others we imitate Girard calls " models , " models of desire . He has also ...
Pagina xii
... first one " of this world is the " principle " or " first thing " of both order and disorder : of disorder because he is a figure representing rivalry and scandal , of order be- cause he represents the mechanism that is triggered at the ...
... first one " of this world is the " principle " or " first thing " of both order and disorder : of disorder because he is a figure representing rivalry and scandal , of order be- cause he represents the mechanism that is triggered at the ...
Pagina xviii
... first sustained outcries in world litera- ture of the single victim who is persecuted by enemies . This theme in the psalms is brought to a poetic crystallization in the sufferings of Job , who recognizes he is a scapegoat of the crowd ...
... first sustained outcries in world litera- ture of the single victim who is persecuted by enemies . This theme in the psalms is brought to a poetic crystallization in the sufferings of Job , who recognizes he is a scapegoat of the crowd ...
Pagina xx
... first of all , is the revelation of God in Jesus Christ that the Gospels and the early oral tradition attest . The Jewish Scriptures , the Law and the Prophets , had already wit- nessed that God opposes idolatry and stands on the side ...
... first of all , is the revelation of God in Jesus Christ that the Gospels and the early oral tradition attest . The Jewish Scriptures , the Law and the Prophets , had already wit- nessed that God opposes idolatry and stands on the side ...
Pagina 3
... first and then to all of us . The defense of victims is both a moral imperative and the source of our increasing power to demystify scapegoating . The Passion accounts reveal a phenomenon that unbeknownst to us generates all human ...
... first and then to all of us . The defense of victims is both a moral imperative and the source of our increasing power to demystify scapegoating . The Passion accounts reveal a phenomenon that unbeknownst to us generates all human ...
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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