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I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

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Product Code:
234-01
ISBN
954-321-198-1
SKU
03.0023
Year
30-01-2006
Pages
232
Size
130/200 мм
Weight
0.23 kg
Cover Type
Paperback
Genre
Тheology, Christianity

René Girard

René Girard

René Noël Théophile Girard (1923–2015) was a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of anthropological philosophy. Girard was the author of nearly thirty books, with his writings spanning many academic domains. Although the reception of his work is different in each of these areas, there is a growing body of secondary literature on …

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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.

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