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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    I might have been the first one to challenge Girard's statements in a conversation with him when the book was hot from the press in 1978! By the way the ransom theory does not mean that a debt was pa

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Sean O'Conaill

    #16 Re that statement of Girard in 'Things Hidden' (1978) - denying that the passion story should be seen as narrating a 'sacrifice' - with my own ears I heard René Girard in 2004 in Heythrop Colleg

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    On the Blood of Christ, I am looking just now at the publications I mentioned earlier by the Centro Studi Sanguis Christi, Rome 1981-1991. (I, II, and VII are in Sophia University library)). The volum

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Paddy, I remember that book, which is full of such sweeping and inaccurate statements from Girard. It's a set of improvised interviews he gave to two admiring disciples vying in mimetic rivalry for hi

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe and Sean, what a wonderful conversation we have had from you all this week on the nature of the sacrificial death, or otherwise, of Jesus, which I may have been responsible for setting off last Su

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Sean O'Conaill

    #13 Who is arguing that to abandon satisfactionalism is to undermine the ethic of sacrifice? Time and again I have argued here that an understanding of the crucifixion as a revelation of the scapegoa

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  • Sexuality – a church’s need to learn as well as teach

    February 15 2019
    Sean O'Conaill

    This article is a courageous exception to the rule that seems to govern clerical behaviour in the Irish Church re sexuality: 'Don't ever go there!' The unfortunate result is that it is left - almost

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Sean O’Conaill

    #13. You say there is no trace of the devil’s ransom theory in the NT and then admit an NT reference to ransom, likely to have been by Jesus himself (Matt 20: 28). To whom or to what would a rans

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Kevin Walters

    Hi! Joe your mentioning of “Blood of my Saviour @ 8, prompted me to make a response to your post, as possible you like me read this comment under another article, on this site, which incorporated th

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Sean, you say it's not the language of the NT that's the problem and then say "You call the ‘devil’s ransom theory’ ‘bad theology’ but it surely must have been that understanding that underg

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