I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

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.

• Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
• The Scapegoat
• Violence and the Sacred
• The One by Whom Scandal Comes (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, & Culture)
• Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
• Philosophy and Theology (Horizons in Theology)
• The Girard Reader (Crossroad Herder Book)
• Theater Of Envy: William Shakespeare (Carthage reprint)
• Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire
• Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics