RT Article
T1 René Girard and the Coherence of the Redemptive Work: Example, Instruction, and the Sacrifice of the Cross
JF Toronto journal of theology
VO 38
IS 2
SP 190
OP 203
A1 Roumas, Nicholas G.
LA English
PB School
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1830653202
AB René Girard’s mimetic theory opens up a possibility of unifying the ethical and objective dimensions of Christ’s redemptive work, harmonizing a problematic tension that arises from the redemptive act. To demonstrate this, I draw on Girard’s writings on the Gospels to show how a Girardian reading of the cross leads to an understanding of the redemptive work of Christ as simultaneously exemplary, didactic, and sacrificial, with no real distance between any of these terms.
K1 Girard
K1 Atonement
K1 Mimesis
K1 Redemption
K1 Sacrifice
DO 10.3138/tjt-2021-0086