Mimesis and Atonement René Girard and the Doctrine of Salvation

Sheelah Treflé Hidden is Research Associate in the Heythrop Institute: Religion and Society at the University of London, UK. She is the editor of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mystical Perspectives on the Love of God (2014).

Michael Kirwan SJ is Director of the Heythrop Institute: Religion and Science at the University of London, UK.

Foreword
Rt. Rev. Dr. 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. Orthodox Debates in the Twentieth Century on the Question of Atonement
Antoine Arjakovsky (Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France)
3. Jewish Atonement and the Book of Jonah: From Sacrifice to Non-Violence
Vanessa J. Avery (Webster University, USA)
4. Paul and Girard Agonistes: Against Theological Violence
Anthony Bartlett (Syracuse University, USA)
5. Wright, Wrong and Wrath; Apocalypse in Paul and in Girard
Steve Finamore (Bristol Baptist College, UK)
6. “Strategies of Grace”: Mimesis as Conversion in Girard and in Theology
Nichael Kirwan SJ (Heythrop Institute, University of London, UK)
7. Violence Unveiled: Understanding Christianity and Politics in Northern Ireland after Rene Girard's Re-reading of Atonement
Duncan Morrow (University of Ulster, UK)
8. Sacrifice and Atonement; Strengthening the Trinitarian Aspects of Mimetic Theory
Arpad Szakolczai (University College, Cork, Ireland)
9. Salvation through Forgiveness or through the Cross? Raymund Schwager's Dramatic Solution to a False Alternative
Nikolaus Wandinger (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

Bibliography
Index

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