Tag Archives: scapegoat

Signs of the Times

Posted on July 9, 2018 by gaudetetheology

“Why don’t you just say all lives matter, ma’am?”

What I wish I’d said when he asked me, and why it matters. Continue reading →

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Jottings on Sin: Relating feminist and mimetic hamartiologies?

Posted on March 23, 2013 by gaudetetheology

I went on a database crawl last night looking for material by Mary McClintock Fulkerson, and have read lightly through a few papers that have prompted these still-embryonic thoughts about connections between the understandings of sin in traditional, feminist, and … Continue reading →

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Open Letter to NCAA and Penn State from a Catholic

Posted on July 22, 2012 by gaudetetheology

Dear people, I am not a sports fan, but perhaps this gives me the same kind of useful outsider’s perspective that non-Catholics had on the sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic church. The similarities in the two situations are, … Continue reading →

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I just spent three days at the Theology and Peace workshop based on the mimetic anthropology of Rene Girard. I’ll write more about it later — it was a terrific conference — but for now I’ll just say, I really … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 8, 2012 by gaudetetheology | 2 Comments

Summarizing Mimetic Anthropology

Posted on May 2, 2012 by gaudetetheology

This summary (taken straight from my draft term paper) provides some background on the mimetic approach to theological anthropology and the atonement from which I frequently tend to work. It is based on the work of Rene Girard and of … Continue reading →

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