Description or summary of the book: Rene Girard holds up the gospels as mirrors that reveal our broken humanity, and shows that they also reflect a new reality that can make us whole. Like Simone Weil, Girard looks at the Bible as a map of human behavior, and sees Jesus Christ as the turning point leading to new life.The title echoes Jesus' words: 'I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven'. Girard persuades us that even as our world grows increasingly violent the power of the Christ-event is so great that the evils of scapegoating and sacrifice are being defeated even now. A new community, God's nonviolent kingdom, is being realized - even now.
Estimated reading time (average reader): 12H52M46S
Other categories, genre or collection: Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Christian Theology, Philosophy Of Religion, Religious Life & Practice, Anthropology
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