Mimetic Theory and Its Shadow: Girard, Milbank, and Ontological Violence

by Scott Cowdell

Leading Girardian theologian Scott Cowdell seeks to resolve a long-standing challenge to mimetic theory: that it entails a fundamental brutishness--an ontological violence. Girard's account of scapegoating violence, seen as providing the initial stability for our species to emerge and consolidate, hardly seems compatible with Christian belief in God's good creation, with violence only appearing after a subsequent Fall. The brilliant but controversial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161186464X
• ISBN13: 9781611864649
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages