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Tag Archives: René Girard
Read All About It! – Spring Newsletter
Free complimentary downloadable MP3 audio – Part 8 of Gil Bailie’s Reflections on St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans WE wish a glorious Easter season to all! – As a special Easter gift to those visiting us here we are … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Audible, René Girard, Romans, Shakespeare, Spring, St. Paul
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Big Data & Human Sacrifice
The following comes from an article posted on The Atlantic magazine website: In 1598, a European miner working in the Bolivian highlands stumbled across a 10-year-old Andean girl who was still alive, despite having been walled up inside a funerary … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, Christianity, human sacrifice, religion, René Girard, sacrifice, science
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Message in a bottle….
Ten years ago Gil Bailie spent time reading University of Pennsylvania scholar Philip Rieff’s works with the following results… To Whom It May Concern: [To European culture today — while it can still be spoken of in the singular — … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, Philip Rieff, René Girard, TS Eliot
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Keeping up with the Cornerstone Forum….
We send out a newsletter to our email list 3 or 4 times a year including our annual Fall Appeal. Our Spring 2017 Newsletter is being sent out today. A link to the latest on what is happening at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Gil Bailie, newsletter, Randy Coleman-Riese, René Girard
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A Lenten Reflection – The Multiplication Table
The website The Catholic Thing has published a Lenten reflection by Gil Bailie entitled, The Multiplication Table. It is a classic piece of Gil’s work. I especially appreciate the play of the title and the text. ‘Multiplication table’ is not … Continue reading
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Tagged Eucharist, G K Chesterton, Lent, René Girard, tradition
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Ten Years Ago….
August 27, 2006 marked the beginning of The Cornerstone Forum’s foray into what was then already a large and growing online “weblog” phenomenon with the launch of Reflections on Faith and Culture. In 2006 Facebook was mostly a feature of … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, Cornerstone Forum, Gil Bailie, Jacob, René Girard
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Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
After having spent the past two and a half years editing and transferring Gil Bailie’s cassette recordings of Reflections on Dante’s Divine Comedy to the world of digital audio, I am now ready to take on the next transition task. … Continue reading
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Tagged Julius Caesar, mimetic theory, politics, René Girard, Shakespeare
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Intellectual Respectability
For close to three centuries, in all institutions of higher learning, it has not been intellectually respectable to deal with the [Gospel] text except as an object of demystification, and every time we mention it we must take the ritual … Continue reading
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Tagged intelligentsia, René Girard, the Bible, the Gospel
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Paris Memorial for René Girard
In February a memorial service for René Girard was held in Paris at l’église Saint-Germain des Prés. The YouTube video below from a French television news reporter at the event provides a glimpse of this beautiful homage to our beloved … Continue reading
Stanford Memorial for René Girard – January 19th
A memorial service will be held Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 2 p.m. in Stanford Memorial Church for the renowned French theorist René Girard, who died in November at age 91.
