I See Satan Fall Like LightningRene Girard holds up the gospels as a mirror to reflect our broken humanity and, in the same frame, they reveal the 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 its compass, pointing us in the right direction regardless of where we start. The title echoes Jesus' words (Luke 10: 18): I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven. Girard persuades the reader that

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showing how its rituals can give meaning to Christians outside the monastery

they are like rungs on a ladder

After presenting a historical overview of the development of the concept of compassion

a Jesuit theologian of El Salvador

The Announcement of the Council: From the Security of the Fortress to the Lure of the Quest

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The authors of this book have designed a process for reading the Gospel of Mark in which each of the three circles of story informs the other

Steel Center for the Study of Religion and Philosophy and Associate Professor at Hendrix College

have the potential to transform Western society and Christianity

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This anthology gathers the religious words of Afro-American women from Sojourner Truth to Harriet Tubman and Fannie Lou Hamer