315: Girard - The End of Scapegoating
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The Relevance of the Cross
René Girard's work dramatically reshapes this picture, emphasizing the relevance of the cross precisely at the points most at issue. He argues there is already an intrinsic anthropological significance to Jesus's death that is given in the passion narratives empirical account of its currents. These accounts also contain an explicit counter sacrificial theology built on that descriptive ground. According to the first, the cross is scapegoating sacrifice and the revelation is that it is known as such. Jesus is the scapegoat, sacrifice. This is Jesus as your example. There you go. Yes.
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