Mimesis and atonement: Rene Girard and the doctrine of salvation

Table of contents

List of Contributors
Preface
Foreword
Rowan Williams (Master, Magdalene College, The University of Cambridge, UK)
1 Traversing Hostility: The sine qua non of Any Christian Talk about Atonement
James Alison (Imitatio Foundation)
2 Jewish Atonement and the Book of Jonah: From Sacrifice to Non-Violence
Vanessa Avery (Webster University, USA)
3 Orthodox Debates in the Twentieth Century on the Question of Atonement
Antoine Arjakovsky (Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France)
4 Wright, Wrong and Wrath: Apocalypse in Paul and in Girard
Stephen Finamore (Bristol Baptist College, UK)
5 Paul and Girard Agonistes: Against Theological Violence
Anthony Bartlett (Syracuse University, USA)
6 Salvation through Forgiveness or through the Cross? Raymund Schwager's Dramatic Solution to a False Alternative
Nikolaus Wandinger (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
7 'Strategies of Grace': Mimesis as Conversion in Girard and in Theology
Michael Kirwan(Heythrop Institute, University of London, UK)
8 Violence Unveiled: Understanding Christianity and Politics in Northern Ireland after René Girard's Re-reading of Atonement
Duncan Morrow(University of Ulster, UK)
9 Sacrifice and Atonement: Strengthening the Trinitarian Aspects of Mimetic Theory
Arpad Szakolczai (University College, Cork, Ireland)
Index

How are we to best understand the statement of faith that Jesus Christ lived, died and rose again 'for us and for salvation?' This question has animated Christian thought for two millennia: it has also bitterly divided believers, not least in Reformation and post-Reformation disputes about atonement, justification, sanctification and sacrifice. René Girard's Violence and the Sacred (1972) made startling connections between religion, violence and culture. His work has enlivened the theological and philosophical debate once again, especially the question of whether and how we are to understand Christ's death as a 'sacrifice'. Mimesis and Atonement brings together philosophers from Catholic, Evangelical, Orthodox, and Jewish backgrounds to examine the continued significance of Girard's work. They do so in the light of new developments, such as the controversial 'new scholarship' on Paul.

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