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Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 442 g

Cowdell

René Girard and Secular Modernity

Christ, Culture, and Crisis
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-268-02374-4
Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press

Christ, Culture, and Crisis

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 442 g

ISBN: 978-0-268-02374-4
Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press


In<em> René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis,</em> Scott Cowdell 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. In Girard’s singular vision, according to Cowdell, secular modernity has emerged thanks to the Bible’s exposure of the cathartic violence that is at the root of religious prohibitions, myths, and rituals. In the literature, the psychology, and most recently the military history of modernity, Girard discerns a consistent slide into an apocalypse that challenges modern ideas of romanticism, individualism, and progressivism.<br><br>In the first three chapters, Cowdell examines the three elements of Girard’s basic intellectual vision (mimesis, sacrifice, biblical hermeneutics) and brings this vision to a constructive interpretation of “secularisation” and “modernity,” as these terms are understood in the broadest sense today. Chapter 4 focuses on modern institutions, chiefly the nation state and the market, that function to restrain the outbreak of violence. And finally, Cowdell discusses the apocalyptic dimension of Girard’s theory in relation to modern warfare and terrorism. Here, Cowdell engages with the most recent writings of Girard (particularly his <em>Battling to the End</em>) and applies them to further conversations in cultural theology, political science, and philosophy. Cowdell takes up and extends Girard’s own warning concerning an alternative to a future apocalypse: “What sort of conversion must humans undergo, before it is too late?”
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<strong>Scott Cowdell</em> 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.



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