Mimesis and atonement : Rene Girard and the doctrine of salvation /

Mimesis and atonement : Rene Girard and the doctrine of salvation /

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Imprint:New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Violence, desire, and the sacred
Subject:
Girard, René, -- 1923-2015.
Girard, René, -- 1923-2015.
Atonement.
Atonement.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12540706
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Other authors / contributors:Kirwan, Michael, editor.
ISBN:9781501325441
1501325442
9781501325458
1501325450
9781501325434
1501325434
9781501325427
1501325426
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:How are we to best understand the statement of faith that Jesus Christ lived, died and rose again 'for us and for salvation?' This question has animated Christian thought for two millennia: it has also bitterly divided believers, not least in Reformation and post-Reformation disputes about atonement, justification, sanctification and sacrifice. Rene Girard's Violence and the Sacred (1972) made startling connections between religion, violence and culture. His work has enlivened the theological and philosophical debate once again, especially the question of whether and how we are to understand Christ's death as a 'sacrifice'. "Mimesis and Atonement" brings together philosophers from Catholic, Evangelical, Orthodox, and Jewish backgrounds to examine the continued significance of Girard's work. They do so in the light of new developments, such as the controversial 'new scholarship' on Paul
Other form:Print version: Mimesis and atonement. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 9781501325427
Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents ; Contributors ; Preface ; Foreword ; Chapter 1 Traversing Hostility: The sine qua non of Any Christian Talk about Atonement ; Recovering Our Lord ' s account of his atonement ; Taking incomprehension seriously ; Liturgical presence and awe ; Forgiveness prior to being ; Notes ; Chapter 2 Jewish Atonement and the Book of Jonah : From Sacrifice to Non-Violence ; Notes ; Chapter 3 Orthodox Debates in the Twentieth Century on the Question of Atonement.
  • The renewal of Russian religious thought in Western Europe, 1920
  • 30 Personalism, heir to a divine-human soteriology ; Atonement and personalism ; What is personalism? ; The debate in The Way ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Chapter 4 Wright, Wrong and Wrath: Apocalypse in Paul and in Girard ; Introduction ; The scholarly debate about the wrath of God ; The wrath of God in Paul ; Wright and wrath ; Girard ' s overall goals ; Girard and the wrath of God ; Romans 1.18-32 ; Conclusions ; Notes.
  • Chapter 5 Paul and Girard Agonistes : Against Theological Violence Notes ; Chapter 6 Salvation through Forgiveness or through the Cross? Raymund Schwager ' s Dramatic Solution to a False Alternative ; Introduction ; ' Atonement ' in a new paradigm: Schwager ' s drama of salvation ; The meaning of the term ; Salvation through forgiveness even by the cross ; Notes ; Chapter 7 ' Strategies of G race ' : M imesis as C onversion in Girard and in Theology ; Mimetic Theory and theories of the atonement.
  • Conversion and ' figural realism ' Conversion and Paul ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Chapter 8 Violence Unveiled: Understanding Christianity and Politics in Northern Ireland after Ren é Girard ' s Rereading of Atonement ; Introduction ; For us and our salvation ; ' A factory of grievances ' : Religion and rivalry in conflict in Ireland ; He died for us: The possibility of reconciliation in Northern Ireland ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Chapter 9 Sacrifice and Atonement: Strengthening the Trinitarian Aspects of Mimetic Theory.
  • Introduction The return of religion at the heart of modernity ; The significance of the Trinity for understanding modernity ; The Shaft scene of Lascaux ; The Shaft scene in context ; The abyssal difference of the Shaft scene ; The original scene in Brahmanism ; The Satapatha Brahmana in context ; The origins of the world according to the Satapatha Brahmana ; Sacrifice ; Sexuality ; Linguistic speculations by Brahmanic ritualists ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Index.

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