Paperback, 199 pages
English language
Published April 19, 2001 by Orbis Books.
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
by Rene Girard
Rene Girard: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (2001, Orbis Books)
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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.
Subjects
- Religion - Classic Works
- Violence
- Philosophy
- Christianity - Theology - General
- Religion
- Religion - Catholicism
- Scapegoat
- Religious aspects
- Christian Theology - Catholic
- Christian Theology - General
- Christianity - Catholic
- Christianity - Theology - Catholic
- Inspirational - General
- Inspirational
- Christianity
- Myth