Rene Girard and Secular Modernity - Christ, Culture, and Crisis

In René Girard and Secular Modernity, Scott Cowdell provides the first systematic interpretation of René Girard's controversial approach to secular modernity.

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Overture to Mimetic Theory

2. From Violence to Divinity

3. From Hominization to Apocalypse

4. Girard Among the Theologians

5. A Divine-Human Drama

6. The Shadow Side of Finitude

7. Divine Overaccepting

8. Christ, the Nonviolence of God

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Scott Cowdell is associate professor and research fellow in public and contextual theology at Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia, and canon theologian of the Canberra-Goulburn Anglican Diocese. He is author and editor of a number of books, including Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines (edited with Chris Fleming and Joel Hodge).

Summary

Provides the first systematic interpretation of René Girard’s controversial approach to secular modernity. Cowdell identifies the scope, development, and implications of Girard’s thought, the centrality of Christ in Girard’s thinking, and, in particular, Girard’s distinctive take on the uniqueness and finality of Christ in terms of his impact on Western culture.

Product details

• Authors: Rev Dr Scott Cowdell, Rev Dr Scott (Australian Catholic Univers Cowdell, REV Dr Scott (Australian Catholic University Aus) Cowdell, Rev Dr Scott (Charles Sturt University Cowdell, Scott Cowdell
• Publisher: University Of Notre Dame Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.2013
• EAN: 9780268023744
• ISBN: 978-0-268-02374-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous