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 xiv
... ritual act of sacrifice stems from the operation of the victim mechanism . The human or animal offered as a sacrifice is Origins ( Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1987 ) , 73-105 ; and " Python and His Two Wives : An Exemplary ...
... ritual act of sacrifice stems from the operation of the victim mechanism . The human or animal offered as a sacrifice is Origins ( Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1987 ) , 73-105 ; and " Python and His Two Wives : An Exemplary ...
Pagina xv
... ritual of expelling a victim . This could be called " scapegoating , " a term based on the ritual described in Leviticus 16 , which involves intentionally transferring the sins of the people onto a he - goat and driving the goat into ...
... ritual of expelling a victim . This could be called " scapegoating , " a term based on the ritual described in Leviticus 16 , which involves intentionally transferring the sins of the people onto a he - goat and driving the goat into ...
Pagina xvi
... ritual representation of what had worked in the past . By the time the human ability to think critically had emerged in prophetic preaching or philosophical criticism , the origins of religion and culture were screened , covered ...
... ritual representation of what had worked in the past . By the time the human ability to think critically had emerged in prophetic preaching or philosophical criticism , the origins of religion and culture were screened , covered ...
Pagina 37
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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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