René Girard's retelling of Christian doctrine in the terms of his mimetic theory. Reading the Gospels alongside the myths and the persecutions of human history, Girard presents Satan as the personification of the mimetic contagion that sets communities against a scapegoat, and the Cross and Resurrection as the revelation that dismantles it. First published in French in 1999, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning is one of the clearest entrances into Girard's thought.
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René Girard's retelling of Christian doctrine in the terms of his mimetic theory. Reading the Gospels alongside the myths and the persecutions of human history, Girard presents Satan as the personification of the mimetic contagion that sets communities against a scapegoat, and the Cross and Resurrection as the revelation that dismantles it. First published in French in 1999, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning is one of the clearest entrances into Girard's thought.