I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: April 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781570753190
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
First sentence: IN THE BIBLE, and especially in the Gospels, there is an original conception of desire and its conflicts that has gone largely unrecognized.
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Introduction; label: Part One
title: Biblical Knowledge of Violence; label: Chapter 1
title: Scandals Must Come; label: Chapter 2
title: The Cycle of Mimetic Violence; label: Chapter 3
title: Satan; label: Part Two
title: The Enigma of Myth Resolved; label: Chapter 4
title: The Horrible Miracle of Apollonius of Tyana; label: Chapter 5
title: Mythology; label: Chapter 6
title: Sacrifice; label: Chapter 7
title: The Founding Murder; label: Chapter 8
title: Powers and Principalities; label: Part Three
title: The Victory of the Cross; label: Chapter 9
title: The Uniquenesss of the Bible; label: Chapter 10
title: The Uniqueness of the Gospels; label: Chapter 11
title: The Triumph of the Cross; label: Chapter 12
title: Scapegoat; label: Chapter 13
title: The Modern Concern for Victims; label: Chapter 14
title: The Twofold Nietzschean Heritage; title: Conclusion