314: Girard - I Saw Satan Fall Like Lightning
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The Scandal of the Incarnation
We do this all the time, we try to set up Jesus as a rival to Moses. Or the devil. And it's like, well, that undermines who Jesus is. Well, and so that would be then the scandal of the incarnation. Because God does become one of us. Mm-hmm. Uncondition. How is that going to work? Without conditions. Exactly. We'll divide everything into binary terms. That in and of itself, again, not only being platonic, but at root, to put a name on it, is mimetic. Why do you think the Pharisees invite him to their dinner parties? If they're theologically opposed to him
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