The Genealogy of Violence : Reflections on Creation, Freedom, and Evil
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195134982
ISBN-13
9780195134988
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
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Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
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GB
Publication Date
May 3rd, 2001
Print length
176 Pages
Weight
408 grams
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24.40 x 16.50 x 1.80 cms
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This work draws on the thought of Soren Kierkegaard and Rene Girard in search of a Christian understanding of the roots of violence. The author uses Kierkegaard's idea of sin to argue that the basic motive that impels human beings towards acts of violence is a refusal to grow spiritually.
In this book, Charles Bellinger draws on the thought of Søren Kierkegaard and Rene Girard in search of a Christian understanding of the roots of violence. Utilizing Kierkegaard''s idea of sin as the evasion of the call to become oneself before God, he argues that the basic motive that impels human beings toward acts of violence is a refusal to grow spiritually. He finds congruencies between Kierkegaard''s concept and the Girardian theory of mimetic desire and scapegoating. From these two sources he creates a model which he applies to a consideration of the problem of violent acts committed by Christians throughout history. Such episodes as the Crusades and the Inquisition, says Bellinger, reveal the failure of ostensible Christians to live in accordance with the insights of biblical revelation.
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