📱 eBook en inglés TOWARDS RECONCILIATION

Why do humans sacralise the causes for which they fight? Who will decipher for us the enigma of sacred violence? Paul Gifford shows that the culture theorist and fundamental anthropologist Rene Girard has in fact decoded the obscurely foundational complicity between violence and the sacred, showing why it is everybodys problem and the Problem of Everybody. Rene Girards mimetic theory, especially his neglected writings on biblical texts, can be read as an anthropological argument continuous with Darwin, shedding formidable new light to a vast array of dark and knotted things: from the functioning of the worlds oldest temple to todays terrorist violence, from the Cross of Christ to the Good Friday Agreement, such insights illuminate superbly (from below) the ways of creation, revelation, redemption - which is to say, ultimately, the Christian enterprise and vocation of Reconciliation. Here is a novel and exciting resource for scanning the hidden sacrificial logic that still secretly shapes cultural, social, and political life today. Girard puts us ahead of the game in the key dialogues required if we are to avoid autogenerated apocalypses of human violence in the world of tomorrow.