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Ep. 4: Dr. Gregory Thornbury: Rene Girard and the Mimetic Cycle

The Moral Imagination

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I Saw Satan Fall Like Lightning, Right?

In the Seder meal, Jewish participants said, this is what God did for me when he got me out of Egypt, not my ancestors. And then in Christian kind of divine liturgy, at least in the Orthodox and Catholic tradition, which I know better, you could explain it in maybe some of the evangelical traditions. There is this sense that like, it's a re presentation of the sacrifice. In Christian history, the move is to say, we did not crucify Christ, the Jews did. Which is a big problem. We can have a debate as to whether or not that is actually the intent of the authors of the gospels. But from the time that those texts appeared

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