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Tag Archives: René Girard
Remembering René Girard
René Girard passed from this life four years ago, leaving behind both an intellectual legacy and a wonderful example of a well-lived life. He changed my life in so many ways, for which I am deeply grateful. For those who … Continue reading
Waning days of Summer Newsletter
New to the Cornerstone Forum Store This is the last of Gil Bailie’s Reflections on the works of William Shakespeare – and appropriately The Tempest was the Bard’s final play. All those who have signed up for our episodic email … Continue reading
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Tagged belonging, communion, community, globalization, Hans Urs von Balthasar, newsletter, René Girard, Shakespeare, The Tempest
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A Coda on COV&R in Innsbruck (present and past…)
Bleary eyed after 24 hours of travel from Austria to San Francisco the accumulated work of two weeks away from the Cornerstone Forum office awaits me. Before I dig into the pile of paper, emails, and related chores I would … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Péguy, Colloquium on Violence & Religion, immigration, Innsbruck, Islam, René Girard, Richard Wilbur, scapegoats, truth
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A California Yankee in Innsbruck
The Colloquium on Violence and Religion’s 2019 conference is winding up what seems to have recently become its annual attempt to distance itself from René Girard’s Christian and Catholic sensibilities. That this is done in the name of Girard’s understanding … Continue reading
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Tagged Colloquium on Violence & Religion, immigration, mimetic theory, René Girard, suffering
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Free Revelation, and a Poetic entrée to Holy Week…
As an Easter gift to those who find our work of interest we are offering to everyone stopping by our website the opportunity to listen to an MP3 audio file of Gil Bailie’s Reflections on the Flannery O’Connor’s Short Story … Continue reading
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Tagged Edwin Muir, Flannery O'Connor, Gil Bailie, God's Gamble, newsletter, René Girard, revelation, TS Eliot
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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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Tagged Andrew Feenberg, Imitatio, Johns Hopkins University, René Girard
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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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