Sentences with phrase «scapegoat mechanism»

It is, to use René Girard's terminology, the single victim scapegoat mechanism.

Why did Jesus submit Himself to the «scapegoat mechanism»?

He not only revealed to us what God had been doing all along, but also unmasked the scapegoat mechanism for all to see.

Without the scapegoat mechanism, human culture would collapse upon itself in a never - ending cycle of progressive violence.

In it, he not only includes the best explanation of mimetic theory I have read so far, but he then ties in the accompanying themes of the scapegoat mechanism, how Satan casts out Satan through violence, and how Jesus reveals all this to the world through His ministry, life, death, and resurrection.

In other words, the original sin (and ongoing sin) consists in what Rene Girard calls mimetic rivalry and the scapegoat mechanism.

And because of the revelation of Jesus Christ on the cross, we have become quite good at recognizing this scapegoat mechanism when we read about it in historical documents.

We recognize the scapegoat mechanism when we read about governments justifying genocide against the native people living in the land.

We recognize this scapegoat mechanism when we read about the Nazis in Germany blaming the Jews for the financial problems and cultural upheaval in that country.

Jesus went willingly to the cross, not because a blood sacrifice was necessary to pay the penalty for sin, but because going to the cross unmasked the scapegoat mechanism, revealed the violence inherent within the heart of men, exposed the myth of redemptive violence, and brought an end to the war that men had waged on God for centuries.

The insidiousness of our self righteousness is that in seeing the scapegoat mechanism working in others we start doing it ourselves.

In the end it seems that Girard's doctrine of sin is essentially Socratic: sin is ignorance, unconsciousness of the scapegoat mechanism.

The Cross as Revelation Girard speaks of the Gospels as texts which reveal the scapegoat mechanism, because they are written from the point of view of the victim, not of the persecuting crowd.

From him we can learn that the «social crisis» which is resolved through the «scapegoat mechanism» is in reality the crisis of human existence before God, the crisis of creation.

Without the scapegoat mechanism, inter-personal violence only continues to escalate on an ever - increasing spiral of retribution and destruction until society collapses upon itself.

Sociologists, anthropologists, and psychologists have noticed this «scapegoat mechanism» in various societies and cultures around the world and have attributed it to an evolutionary necessity for the survival of human society.

By teaching Israel about the scapegoat, and indeed, implanting the scapegoat mechanism into the hearts of people around the world, God was preparing people for the ultimate scapegoat of human history — Jesus Christ.

God knew that without the violence of the scapegoat mechanism, mankind would only spiral into ever - increasing violence, which ultimately would end in our complete destruction.

Yesterday we saw the first reason, that the Bible reveals mankind's destructive cycle of mimetic rivalry and the scapegoat mechanism by which we escape the cycle.

One shocking reason the Bible is unique is that it reveals mimetic rivalry and the scapegoat mechanism.

French writer and thinker, Rene Girard claims that this prejudice or scapegoat mechanism within us all, is the result of the chaos that eventually breaks out within a communal mimetic desire system.

The scapegoating mechanism, inherent in our group dynamics can work 2 ways.

I believe that is a «theory of everything» and that all people, no matter what field or profession they are in, can benefit from understanding mimetic rivalry and the scapegoating mechanism.

Girard is famous for exposing the way a «scapegoating mechanism» works in culture and religion — something he thinks Christianity was the first to expose.

Not exact matches

The death of Jesus on the cross «rescues us from sin» in that it reveals to us the scapegoating, blame - game mechanism behind most of our sin and violence.

We have gone astray if we think that God endorses the mechanism of scapegoating sacrifice and that the crucifixion is just the largest and most powerful example.