The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity?
How does Christianity, at once the most "sacrificial" of religions and a faith with a non-violent ideology, fit into this scheme? Girard grants Freud's point, in Totem and Taboo, that Christianity is similar to primitive religion, but only to refute Freud―if Christ is sacrificed, Girard argues, it is not becuase God willed it, but because human bei... See more
O'Reilly Media • Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
This history of ours has been flowing on strong undercurrents toward what Charles Taylor called “the great unlearning of the languages of transcendence.”5
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
It is said truly in a sense that Pan died because Christ was born. It is almost as true in another sense that men knew that Christ was born because Pan was already dead. A void was made by the vanishing of the whole mythology of mankind, which would have asphyxiated like a vacuum if it had not been filled with theology.
G K. Chesterton • The Everlasting Man (with linked TOC)
