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Scott Cowdell
An argument for the centrality of the Eucharistic church in an increasingly tribal world.
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In Rene Girard and Secular Modernity, Scott Cowdell provides the first systematic interpretation of Rene Girard's controversial approach to secular modernity.
Scott Cowdell explores how ‘having faith’ has changed under the influence of modernity and post-modernity in the West. This title returns faith from pious sentimentality and arid philosophy of religion…
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This first extended study of Don Cupitt’s writings discusses them from his earliest articles up to and including The Long-Legged Fly, published in 1987. Such a survey is badly needed…
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Leading Girardian theologian Scott Cowdell seeks to resolve a long-standing challenge to mimetic theory: that it entails a fundamental brutishness - an ontological violence. Cowdell shows how Girard's vision of…
Informed, challenging, accessible and encouraging, Church Matters is an important book in these difficult times for the churches in Australia and beyond.
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In Rene Girard and Secular Modernity, Scott Cowdell provides the first systematic interpretation of Rene Girard’s controversial approach to secular modernity.
Bringing a distinctive Anglican voice to a largely Catholic debate, Cowdell gives an orthodox theological account of Girard’s intellectual achievement, bearing witness to Christianity’s nonviolent God.
Scott Cowdell (Australian Catholic University Aus)
Showcases the application of Rene Girard’s mimetic theory across a range of disciplines, including philosophy, religious studies, literature and cultural studies.
Building on the growing recognition and critical acclaim of volumes 1 and 2 of Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, this third volume in the series showcases the most groundbreaking, interdisciplinary…
This collection of state of the art interpretations of the thought of Rene Girard follows on from the volume Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Girard’s Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines…
One of the most pressing issues of our time is the outbreak of extremist violence and terrorism, done in the name of religion. This volume critically analyses the link made…
The brilliant and ground-breaking mimetic theory of the French-American theorist Rene Girard (1923-2015)has gained wide-ranging recognition, yet its development has received less attention. This volume presents the important correspondence-conducted in…
In this book, theologians and scholars of religion grapple with the political, philosophical, and ethical implications of a climate crisis provoked by one species, our own, serving its needs at…
