The Jesus Driven Life: Reconnecting Humanity With Jesus by Michael Hardin

Author:Michael Hardin [Hardin, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Theology, Spirituality, Religion
ISBN: 9781514759653
Amazon: 1514759659
Goodreads: 8429254
Publisher: JDL Press
Published: 2010-04-02T06:00:00+00:00

Girard is saying that the Bible contains within itself the very method it wants to be interpreted by; that method is to see that the Bible contains both perspectives, that of the persecuted and that of the persecutor. The Hebrew Bible is the earliest literature we possess where the voice of the victim is heard, where the loser gets to tell the story. All previous literature and cultures only tell the story from the perspective of the winner.

The project of the Jewish-Christian tradition is to expose the roots of violence in our everyday lives and show us a way to live in peace. We continue in our religious and cultural violence and justification of violence because we fail to discern that the very thing we justify is our own ‘righteous’ scapegoating. In the generative process of human enculturation, as we saw in the last section, violence produced those very aspects of culture we rely upon to survive. It is these very things that the gospel has demystified, exposed as lies, and trumped in their ability to keep us spell- bound to its power.

The Judeo-Christian tradition exposes the victimage mechanism offering a distinctive treatment of myth.138 It is precisely the intervention of God in the 'founding murder' of Abel that differentiates the Jewish myth from other ancient myths. The innocent Abel may indeed be the ground of Cain's city, but it is a city doomed to disintegrate because it is grounded in a mechanism that will ultimately fail. This is clearly seen in the glorying of Lamech regarding the escalation of human violence and vengeance. (Gen. 4:23-24)

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