Mimesis and atonement: Rene Girard and the doctrine of salvation

List of Contributors Preface Foreword Rowan Williams (Master, Magdalene College, The University of Cambridge, UK) 1 Traversing Hostility: The sine qua non of Any Christian Talk about AtonementJames Alison (Imitatio Foundation) 2 Jewish Atonement and the Book of Jonah: From Sacrifice to Non-ViolenceVanessa Avery (Webster University, USA) 3 Orthodox Debates in the Twentieth Century on the Question of AtonementAntoine Arjakovsky (College des Bernardins, Paris, France) 4 Wright, Wrong and Wrath: Apocalypse in Paul and in GirardStephen Finamore (Bristol Baptist College, UK) 5 Paul and Girard Agonistes: Against Theological ViolenceAnthony Bartlett (Syracuse University, USA) 6 Salvation through Forgiveness or through the Cross? Raymund Schwager's Dramatic Solution to a False AlternativeNikolaus Wandinger (University of Innsbruck, Austria) 7 'Strategies of Grace': Mimesis as Conversion in Girard and in TheologyMichael Kirwan(Heythrop Institute, University of London, UK) 8 Violence Unveiled: Understanding Christianity and Politics in Northern Ireland after Rene Girard's Re-reading of AtonementDuncan Morrow(University of Ulster, UK) 9 Sacrifice and Atonement: Strengthening the Trinitarian Aspects of Mimetic TheoryArpad Szakolczai (University College, Cork, Ireland) Index