Philosophy
Persuasions of God
2024·220 pages
A scholarly exploration of René Girard's mimetic theory, reimagining religious rhetoric for a post-secular age.
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A scholarly exploration of René Girard's mimetic theory, reimagining religious rhetoric for a post-secular age.
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The nations of the global north find themselves in a post-secular or post-Christian period, one in which the practice, expression, and effects of religion are undergoing massive shifts. In Persuasions of God , Paul Lynch pursues a project of "theorhetoric," a radical new approach to speaking about the divine. Searching for new religious forms amid the lingering influence of Christianity, Lynch turns to René Girard, the most important twentieth-century thinker on the sacred and its expression wit...
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Central focus on religious rhetoric, theology, and reimagining God.
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