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Tag Archives: René Girard
A Girard Christmas Card
This excerpt from the Hoover Institute’s Uncommon Knowledge series in which Peter Robinson interviews René Girard was recorded in 2010. We make it available at this time of year in celebration of the Christmas feast which also coincides with the … Continue reading
Paradox
In the Gospel reading for Monday of the Second week of Advent Jesus heals a paralytic who has been lowered down through the ceiling of the crowded room where Our Lord has been teaching. It is a well-known story. Luke … Continue reading
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Tagged Gil Bailie, Grant Kaplan, Ivan Illich, joke, Kierkegaard, paradox, paradoxes, René Girard
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René Girard circa 1962 – A Student’s Perspective
The Imitatio website has recently posted a fascinating window into the classroom of then Johns Hopkins University professor René Girard who was offering a class on “The French Novel of the 19th and 20th Centuries”. In the second semester of … Continue reading
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René Girard Via First Things
The journal First Things has recently featured on its website a short essay by Peter J. Leithart entitled ‘Clashing Victimocracies!’ The author explores the privileged and problematic position of the ‘victim’ in current social and political debate. In doing so … Continue reading
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Tagged Eric Gans, First Things, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, mimetic theory, René Girard, victim
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New Items from the Archives & Notes on a New Perspective
When Gil Bailie first encountered the work of René Girard in the mid-1980s he had for years been hosting weekly gatherings for discussion of classics from the Western literary and spiritual tradition. These discussions became over time more in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew McKenna, Carl Jung, Elizabeth Jennings, Gil Bailie, Herman Melville, René Girard
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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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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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