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 14
... mimetic urge to transgress them . The best way of preventing violence does not consist in forbidding objects , or even rivalistic desire , as the tenth commandment does , but in offering to people the model that will protect them from ...
... mimetic urge to transgress them . The best way of preventing violence does not consist in forbidding objects , or even rivalistic desire , as the tenth commandment does , but in offering to people the model that will protect them from ...
Pagina 15
... mimetic nature . The more " proud " and " egotistic " we are , the more enslaved we become to our mimetic models . EVEN IF THE MIMETIC NATURE of human desire is responsible for most of the violent acts that distress us , we should not ...
... mimetic nature . The more " proud " and " egotistic " we are , the more enslaved we become to our mimetic models . EVEN IF THE MIMETIC NATURE of human desire is responsible for most of the violent acts that distress us , we should not ...
Pagina 16
mimetic , if they did not of necessity choose for models the human beings who surround them , humanity would have neither language nor culture . If desire were not mimetic , we would not be open to what is human or what is divine . Mimetic ...
mimetic , if they did not of necessity choose for models the human beings who surround them , humanity would have neither language nor culture . If desire were not mimetic , we would not be open to what is human or what is divine . Mimetic ...
Pagina 18
... mimetic crises , which spread without ceasing and become worse and worse . Chapter 2 The Cycle of Mimetic Violence HE CROWD is 18 The Biblical Knowledge of Violence.
... mimetic crises , which spread without ceasing and become worse and worse . Chapter 2 The Cycle of Mimetic Violence HE CROWD is 18 The Biblical Knowledge of Violence.
Pagina 19
... mimetic conflict - in the apostle's life . The Gospels show him to be the puppet of his own mimetic desire , incapable of resisting pressures that work upon him from moment to moment . Those who look for the causes of Peter's threefold ...
... mimetic conflict - in the apostle's life . The Gospels show him to be the puppet of his own mimetic desire , incapable of resisting pressures that work upon him from moment to moment . Those who look for the causes of Peter's threefold ...
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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