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 10
... imitation of the neighbor's desire engenders rivalry , rivalry in turn engenders imitation . The appearance of a rival seems to validate the desire , the immense value of the object desired . Imitation becomes intensified at the heart ...
... imitation of the neighbor's desire engenders rivalry , rivalry in turn engenders imitation . The appearance of a rival seems to validate the desire , the immense value of the object desired . Imitation becomes intensified at the heart ...
Pagina 11
... imitation of a model who becomes a rival or of a rival who becomes a model . Such conflicts are not accidental , but neither are they the fruit of an instinct of aggression or an aggressive drive . Mimetic rivalries can become so ...
... imitation of a model who becomes a rival or of a rival who becomes a model . Such conflicts are not accidental , but neither are they the fruit of an instinct of aggression or an aggressive drive . Mimetic rivalries can become so ...
Pagina 13
... imitating Jesus ? It cannot be his ways of being or his personal habits : imitation is never about that in the Gospels . Neither does Jesus propose an ascetic rule of life in the sense of Thomas à Kempis and his celebrated Imitation of ...
... imitating Jesus ? It cannot be his ways of being or his personal habits : imitation is never about that in the Gospels . Neither does Jesus propose an ascetic rule of life in the sense of Thomas à Kempis and his celebrated Imitation of ...
Pagina 14
... imitate Jesus does not appear suddenly in a world exempt from imitation ; rather it is addressed to everyone that mimetic rivalry has affected . Non - Christians imagine that to be converted they must renounce an autonomy that all ...
... imitate Jesus does not appear suddenly in a world exempt from imitation ; rather it is addressed to everyone that mimetic rivalry has affected . Non - Christians imagine that to be converted they must renounce an autonomy that all ...
Pagina 15
theless bad models because we cannot imitate them without falling with them into the trap of rivalries in which we are ensnarled more and more . We feel that we are at the point of attaining autonomy as we imitate our models of power ...
theless bad models because we cannot imitate them without falling with them into the trap of rivalries in which we are ensnarled more and more . We feel that we are at the point of attaining autonomy as we imitate our models of power ...
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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