The Cornerstone Forum
Keeping Faith & Breaking Ground
"The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone." Luke 20:17
Part I: The Old Testament background, the story of Phinehas in the Book of Numbers, the anthropology of sacred violence and sacrifice, and the origin of the Scapegoat ritual in spontaneous violence.
Part II: The revelation of the Cross, the truth of the victim, the story of Stephen's stoning, Hamlet: a parable of the clash between pagan and Christian imperatives