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Mimetic Theory and Its Shadow: Girard, Milbank, and Ontological Violence

By Scott Cowdell

Book information

Publisher
Studies in Violence, Mimesis &
Year
2023
ISBN
161186464X, 9781611864649
Google Books ID
XXuwzwEACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1702939 bytes)
Pages
\209
Time added
2024-05-29 13:34:29

Description

Leading Girardian theologian Scott Cowdell seeks to resolve a long-standing challenge to mimetic theory: that it entails a fundamental brutishness. Girard's account of scapegoating violence, seen as providing the initial stability for our species to emerge and consolidate, hardly seems compatible with Christian belief in God's good creation. Cowdell shows how Girard's vision of human transformation through faith in Christ reveals a different world beyond ontological violence while preserving the divine participation that controversial theologian John Milbank champions.

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