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The Gospel Revelation of the Founding Murder
Cain and Abel by Titian This is taken from The Girard Reader, an anthology of Professor Rene Girard’s work: “The Girardian theory is one of the great intellectual achievements so the late twentieth...
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A New Anthropos
Caravaggio's Salome Avoiding The Prophetic Tradition’s Old Trap Throughout the Old Testament the renunciation of sacrifice always took place sacrificially. If we are to take seriously the New...
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Selections from On War and Apocalypse by René Girard
I’ve been featuring various topics on a theory of violence promoted by Rene Girard, who is a French-born literary critic, anthropologist, and theologian. Elected to the Académie française in 2005, he...
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Reading Selections from “René Girard for Holy Week” by Fr. Edward T. Oakes, S.J.
Edward T. Oakes, S.J., Ph.D.is Chester & Margaret Paluch Professor of Theology at the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary, the Catholic seminary for the Archdiocese of Chicago....
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An Introduction to the Work of René Girard By Peter Stork
Over the years, several authors have written comprehensive summaries of Girard’s oevre as well as book-length introductions. This article does not seek to repeat their work. Instead, Peter Stork...
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Reading Selections From Girard’s Mimetic Theory And The Relationship Between...
René Girard This is from an article titled “How Girard’s Mimetic Theory Can Help Us Understand the Relationship Between Science and Religion” by Britton Johnston, a Presbyterian minister who lives in...
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Reconciling Science and Religion by Britton Johnston
William Blake, The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve Another reading selection from the article titled “How Girard’s Mimetic Theory Can Help Us Understand the Relationship Between Science and...
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René Girard’s `Thriller’ About Culture, Violence And The Sacred – Fr. Michael...
Without publicizing it, Sancho Panza succeeded, over the years, in diverting his demon (whom he later called Don Quixote) away from himself. This he did through reading many novels of chivalry and...
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René Girard’s “Mimetic Desire” — Fr. Michael Kirwan
Don Quixote is a 1955 sketch by Pablo Picasso of the Spanish literary hero and his sidekick, Sancho Panza. It was featured on the August 18-24 issue of the French weekly journal Les Lettres...
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Reflections on Girard: When Desire Turns Ugly — Fr. Michael Kirwan
Antonio Salieri from Amadeus In a further part of these posts on Girard, we will expand and deepen our understanding of Girard’s discovery of mimetic desire, most especially concerning its darker or...
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Love and Lust – anon
I came across this quite some time ago and quote it from time to time. Then I lost it, couldn’t find it anywhere. And, then, magically, it drifted across my disorganized mess of stuff. Here it is,...
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Buried Secrets 1 — Patrick Radden Keefe
Simandou lies four hundred miles from the coast, in jungle so impassable that the first drill rigs had to be transported to the mountaintops with helicopters. The site has barely been developed — no...
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Buried Secrets 2 — Patrick Radden Keefe
By its nature, corruption is covert; payoffs are designed to be difficult to detect. The international financial system has evolved to accommodate a wide array of illicit activities, and shell...
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Buried Secrets 3 — Patrick Radden Keefe
“I’m totally open — totally transparent,” Steinmetz told me when we sat down. “I never lie, as a principle.” He resents the idea that he is secretive, and believes that he simply protects his right to...
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Anthony Robbins
I would normally shy from self-help as a learning genre and seek answers in exploring the spiritual or in my connection with Jesus Christ through prayer. But I do have to acknowledge that Tony Robbins...
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