I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

Description

Rene Girard holds up the gospels as mirrors that reveal our broken humanity, and shows that they also reflect a new reality that can make us whole. Like Simone Weil, Girard looks at the Bible as a map of human behavior, and sees Jesus Christ as the turning point leading to new life. The title echoes Jesus' words: "I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven". Girard persuades us that even as our world grows increasingly violent the power of the Christ-event is so great that the evils of scapegoating and sacrifice are being defeated even now. A new community, God's nonviolent kingdom, is being realized -- even now.

First Sentence

IN THE BIBLE, and especially in the Gospels, there is an original conception of desire and its conflicts that has gone largely unrecognized.

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Other Editions

• I See Satan Fall Like LightningPaperbackOrbis Books2001-04-01
• Je vois Satan tomber comme l'éclairGrasset1999-01-01
• Ich sah den Satan vom Himmel fallen wie einen Blitz. Eine kritische Apologie des Christentums.HardcoverHanser Belletristik2002-08-01
• I SEE SATAN FALL LIKE LIGHTNING