Rene Girard holds up the gospels as mirrors that display our damaged humanity, and indicates that additionally they replicate a brand new truth which may make us entire. Like Simone Weil, Girard seems to be on the Bible as a map of human habit, and sees Jesus Christ because the turning element resulting in new life.
The identify echoes Jesus' phrases: "I observed devil falling like lightning from heaven". Girard persuades us that while our global grows more and more violent the ability of the Christ-event is so nice that the evils of scapegoating and sacrifice are being defeated even now. a brand new neighborhood, God's nonviolent nation, is being learned -- even now.
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