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René Noël Théophile Girard ( / ʒɪəˈrɑːrd /; [2] French: [ʒiʁaʁ]; 25 December 1923 – 4 November 2015) was a French polymath, historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of philosophical anthropology. Girard was the author of nearly thirty books, with his writings spanning many academic domains.
8 de jul. de 2012 · “Girardian Reflections on the Lectionary” reads the Sunday texts from the fresh perspective of a Christian anthropology — that is, an understanding of our humanity that sees itself as both (1) deriving from, and deeply resonant with, the Christian revelation; and (2) bridging the gap from that revelation to the modern science ...
René Girard is not a theologian; he is best described as fundamental anthropologist and culture theorist. His versatile system of hermeneutical and heuristic thinking is known to its author as ‘the Mimetic Theory’.
27 de jul. de 2023 · This article elucidates the persistently nebulous methodological and disciplinary status of René Girard's mimetic theory, particularly vis-à-vis Christian theology. Whether “Girardian theology” strikes one as tautologous or oxymoronic, the proliferation of Girardian theological scholarship warrants a sustained analysis of ...
Theological Implications Girard claims not to be a theologian, but rather, a philosophical anthropologist. But, echoing Simone Weil, he believes that the gospels, inasmuch as they reveal the nature of human beings, also indirectly reveal the nature of God.
Many of the sacramental theologians who have made use of Girard’s work have, unfor-tunately, conflated his theory with unrelated theological trends; distinguishing Girard’s theory from such trends will allow us to see how his views can be reconciled with an understanding of the Mass as holy sacrifice.
This paper offers a new methodological approach to the study of the atonement theology of French anthropologist and philosopher René Girard. In particular, it charts a genealogy of Girardian atonement theology as it has interacted with other thinkers since the publication of 'Des choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde' in the mid-1970s.
