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 xx
... 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 of the oppressed and those who are unjustly ...
... 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 of the oppressed and those who are unjustly ...
Pagina xxi
... Christian faith of his Lutheran ancestors , but he recognized that a new perspective on the world and a new kind of religious personality were born in the traditions and Scriptures of the Jewish people and came to fruition in the ...
... Christian faith of his Lutheran ancestors , but he recognized that a new perspective on the world and a new kind of religious personality were born in the traditions and Scriptures of the Jewish people and came to fruition in the ...
Pagina xxii
... Christianity had injected into Western culture . He acutely perceived that it was associated with democracy , a ... Christian revelation from his own thinking and view of culture and the state . We can see this clearly not only in ...
... Christianity had injected into Western culture . He acutely perceived that it was associated with democracy , a ... Christian revelation from his own thinking and view of culture and the state . We can see this clearly not only in ...
Pagina xxiii
... Christian faith . That reality is God's revelation through Jesus Christ of the victim mechanism and the way into God's new community of love and nonviolence . But Satan has a tremendous ability to adapt to what God does and to imitate ...
... Christian faith . That reality is God's revelation through Jesus Christ of the victim mechanism and the way into God's new community of love and nonviolence . But Satan has a tremendous ability to adapt to what God does and to imitate ...
Pagina 1
... Christians have always denied or minimized their importance , with disastrous results . I argue that these similarities should be boldly explored . Far from threatening Christian uniqueness , they provide the sole basis upon which it ...
... Christians have always denied or minimized their importance , with disastrous results . I argue that these similarities should be boldly explored . Far from threatening Christian uniqueness , they provide the sole basis upon which it ...
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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