315: Girard - The End of Scapegoating
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The Road Is a Good Revolution
"It's a fantastic novel. It'll come back to me," he says of Cormac McCarthy's "The Death and Taxes" The book is about the end of scapegoating by S.C. Markheim, who was inspired by Moby Dick in his youth. In some Christian theology, they focus on a quote unquote heavenly transactional meaning of the cross - reinforced by an inability to see any earthly revelatory value in Jesus' death. Does this mean that violence is likewise intrinsic to that gospel or at best sublimated as a symbolic spiritual image of forgiveness and reconciliation? Closs to Mark.
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