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  • Mimetic Theory and Its Shadow

    Girard, Milbank, and Ontological Violence

    by Scott Cowdell ...
    Series series Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
    Leading Girardian theologian Scott Cowdell seeks to resolve a long-standing challenge to mimetic theory: that it entails a fundamental brutishness—an ontological violence. Girard’s account of scapegoating violence, seen as providing the initial stability for our species to emerge and consolidate, hardly seems compatible with Christian belief in God’s good creation, with violence only appearing ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • René Girard and Secular Modernity

    Christ, Culture, and Crisis

    by Scott Cowdell ...
    In René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis, 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 ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abiding Faith

    Christianity Beyond Certainty, Anxiety, and Violence

    by Scott Cowdell ...
    Australian theologian Scott Cowdell explores how "having faith" has changed under the influence of modernity and post-modernity in the West. He returns faith from pious sentimentality and arid philosophy of religion to the realm of "participating knowing," "paradigmatic imagination," and personal transformation where it belongs as a "form of life," shaped by encounter with Jesus Christ and worked ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • René Girard and the Nonviolent God

    by Scott Cowdell ...
    In his latest book on the ground-breaking work of René Girard (1923–2015), Scott Cowdell sets out a new perspective on mimetic theory and theology: he develops the proposed connection between Girardian thought and theological dramatic theory in new directions, engaging with issues of evolutionary suffering and divine providence, inclusive Christian uniqueness, God's judgment, nonviolent atonement, ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Volume 1

    Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines

    Edited by Canon Dr Scott Cowdell, Dr. Chris Fleming, Dr. Joel Hodge ...
    Series series Violence, Desire, and the Sacred
    Violence, Desire and the Sacred presents the most up-to-date inter-disciplinary work being developed with the ground-breaking insights of René Girard's mimetic theory. The collection showcases the work of outstanding scholars in mimetic theory and how they are applying and developing Girard's insights in a variety of fields. Girard's mimetic insight has provided a fruitful way for different ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Volume 2

    René Girard and Sacrifice in Life, Love and Literature

    Edited by Canon Dr Scott Cowdell, Dr. Chris Fleming, Dr. Joel Hodge ...
    Series series Violence, Desire, and the Sacred
    This collection of state of the art interpretations of the thought of René Girard follows on from the volume Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines (2012). The previous collection has been acclaimed for demonstrating and showcasing Girard's mimetic theory at its inter-disciplinary best by bringing together scholars who apply Girard's insights in different ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • An Honest Faith

    The Possible Friendship of Athens and Jerusalem

    by Keith Mascord ...
    An Honest Faith tackles the thorny question of whether Christian faith is compatible with the questing and questioning spirit of philosophy. The author argues that a mutually productive friendship between Athens (philosophy/science) and Jerusalem (theology/faith) is possible and, in fact, necessary, given that various forms of the faith resist questioning and therefore end up holding onto outdated ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • René Girard and Raymund Schwager

    Correspondence 1974-1991

    Edited by Canon Dr Scott Cowdell, Dr. Joel Hodge, Dr. Chris Fleming, Dr. Mathias Moosbrugger ...
    Series series Violence, Desire, and the Sacred
    The brilliant and ground-breaking mimetic theory of the French-American theorist René Girard (1923-2015)has gained wide-ranging recognition, yet its development has received less attention. This volume presents the important correspondence-conducted in French and as yet unpublished, let alone translated into English-between Girard and his major theological interlocutor Raymund Schwager SJ (1935 ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Mimesis, Movies, and Media

    Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Volume 3

    Edited by Canon Dr Scott Cowdell, Dr. Chris Fleming, Dr. Joel Hodge ...
    Series series Violence, Desire, and the Sacred
    Building on the growing recognition and critical acclaim of volumes 1 and 2 of Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, this third volume in the seriesshowcases the most groundbreaking, interdisciplinary research in mimetic theory, with a focus on well-known films, television series, and other media. Mimesis, Movies, and Media reaches beyond the traditional boundaries of continental theory to demonstrate ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Does Religion Cause Violence?

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Religion in the Modern World

    Edited by Dr. Joel Hodge, Canon Dr Scott Cowdell, Dr. Chris Fleming, Dr. Carly Osborn ...
    Series series Violence, Desire, and the Sacred
    One of the most pressing issues of our time is the outbreak of extremist violence and terrorism, done in the name of religion. This volume critically analyses the link made between religion and violence in contemporary theory and proposes that 'religion' does not have a special relation to violence in opposition to culture, ideology or nationalism. Rather, religion and violence must be understood ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Why Church?

    Christianity as It Was Meant to Be

    by Scott Cowdell, Ph.D ...
    An argument for the centrality of the Eucharistic church in an increasingly tribal world.As Western culture has secularized, the church has increasingly become marginalized and is seen as providing support and optional resources, rather than indispensable to the Christian life. In this volume, theologian Scott Cowdell argues for a recovery of the church as the proper context for Christian faith, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Theology Beyond Metaphysics

    Transformative Semiotics of René Girard

    by Anthony Bartlett ...
    A theory of human origins that is one-half Charles Darwin and one-half Cain and Abel is bound to entail a lot of rethinking of traditional themes. Rene Girard's thesis of original human violence and the Bible's power to reveal it has been around for more than a generation, but its consequences for Christian theology are still only slowly being unpacked. Anthony Bartlett's book makes a signal ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus