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Redekop’s Mimetic Structures of Blessing and Reconciliation
I got swept away by a productive digression in the middle of responding to Redekop’s outstanding paper, so this is part two. (Read part one.) Vern Neufeld Redekop, “Mimetic Structures of Violence and of Blessing: Creating a Discursive Framework for … Continue reading
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Tagged blessing, confession, francis, mimetic, reconciliation, Redekop, sacrifice, thesis
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Redekop’s Mimetic Structures of Violence and of Blessing: as applied to the church and particularly to the sex abuse scandal
Vern Neufeld Redekop, “Mimetic Structures of Violence and of Blessing: Creating a Discursive Framework for Reconciliation,” Theoforum 33, no. 3 (January 1, 2002): 311–335. This outstanding paper first concisely describes structures of violence and of blessing (life-giving creativity) purely in … Continue reading
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Tagged blessing, hegemony, identity, Redekop, sex abuse scandal, structural sin, thesis, violence
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