I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

by Rene Girard, James G Williams (Translator)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570753190
Publisher:	Orbis Books
Publication date:	02/07/2001
Pages:	199
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Introduction	1
Part 1	The Biblical Knowledge of Violence
1.	Scandal Must Come	7
2.	The Cycle of Mimetic Violence	19
3.	Satan	32
Part 2	The Enigma of Myth Resolved
4.	The Horrible Miracle of Apollonius of Tyana	49
5.	Mythology	62
6.	Sacrifice	71
7.	The Founding Murder	82
8.	Powers and Principalities	95
Part 3	The Victory of the Cross
9.	The Uniqueness of the Bible	103
10.	The Uniqueness of the Gospels	121
11.	The Triumph of the Cross	137
12.	Scapegoat	154
13.	The Modern Concern for Victims	161
14.	The Twofold Nietzschean Heritage	170
	Conclusion	182
	Index	195