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19.01.2022 THOMAS MERTON FAITH & VIOLENCE By Jim Friedrich Beyond Punch and Judy: The art of nonviolent resistance...Continue reading
11.01.2022 OUR MIMETIC WORLD VIOLENCE AND THE SACRED Early on, Girard distinguished in his work between ‘the religion that comes from man’ and ‘the religion that comes from God’. The first type of religion is ‘a more or less violent disavowal of human violence’ that he identified as the sacred. The second type is given by the nonviolent God and can be identified with the holy. In his interview with Stephen Berry which was conducted after 9/11 but before Girard’s last book, he again di...stinguished these two types of religion, introducing the term ‘holy’ to distinguish it from the primordial sacred: We are talking about two types of religion. One fundamentally deifies scapegoating. Therefore, it ultimately deifies violence itself. When I called my second book ‘Violence and the Sacred’, it really meant that the sacred is nothing but violence; it’s only insofar as you don’t see this that violence is the sacred. The real sacred - or let us say the holy, let’s not say the same word - is love, divine love: not human love, which is a miserable imitation of divine love, but real divine love. (Girard and Berry, 2015) Girard’s last book ‘Battling to the End’ provides a consistent and systematic distinction between the sacred and the holy. He expressed it most clearly in his rejection of fundamentalist longings for God’s violent interventions: ‘The apocalypse has to be taken out of fundamentalist handsHuman violence produces the sacred, but holiness leads to the ‘other shore’ that Christians, like Jews, vehemently believe will never be stained by human madness’. Wolfgang Palaver: extract from Transforming the Sacred into Saintliness in the series Cambridge Elements
05.01.2022 PRAYING EUCHARISTICALLY WITH JAMES ALISON GOSPEL FOR THE SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EASTER www.prayingeucharistically.com
05.01.2022 LUMEN CHRISTI AUTOMATION AND THE FUTURE OF WORK: INSIGHTS FROM ECONOMICS AND CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT Thu, Apr 29 at...Continue reading
02.01.2022 JAMES ALISON'S FOURTH TALK AT BONNEVAUX IN FRANCE https://vimeo.com/441405861/76c116d068
