Violence and the kingdom of God: Introducing the anthropology of Rene Girard

Anglican Theological Review, Fall 1998 by Marr, Andrew

Girard, Rene. Violence and the Sacred. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.

Girard, Rene. "To Double Business Bound": Essays on Literature, Mimesis and Anthropology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

Girard, Rene. The Scapegoat. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.

Girard, Rene. Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World: Research Undertaken in Collaboration with Jean-Michel Oughourlian and Guy Lefort. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987.

Girard, Rene. Job, the Victim of his People. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 1987.

Girard, Rene. A Theater of Envy: William Shakespeare. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Girard, Rene. Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevksy. New York: Crossroad, 1997.

"Generative Scapegoating." In Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, Rene Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation, ed. Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly, 73-145. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987.

Girard, Rene. "Are the Gospels Mythical?" First Things 62 (April 1996): 2731.

Girard, Rene. The Girard Reader. New York: Crossroad, 1996.

Alison, James. Knowing Jesus. Springfield, IL: Templegate, 1993.

Alison, James. Raising Abel: The Recovery of the Eschatological Imagination. New York: Crossroad, 1996.

Bailie, Gil: Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads. New York: Crossroad, 1995.

Bandera, Cesareo. The Sacred Game: The Role of the Sacred in the Genesis of Modern Literary Fiction. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.

Hamerton-Kelly, Robert G.: The Gospel and the Sacred: Poetics of Violence in Mark. Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1994.

Schwager, Raymund. Must there be Scapegoats?: Violence and Redemption in the Bible. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1978.

Schwager, Raymund. Erbsunde und Heilsdrama: in Kontext von Evolution, Gentechnologie und Apokalyptik. Minster: Lit Verlag, 1996.

Schwager, Raymund. Jesus im Heilsdrama: Entwurf einer biblischen Erlosungslehre. Innsbruck; Vienna: Tyrolia-Verlag, 1990.

Williams, James G. The Bible, Violence, and the Sacred: Liberation from the Myth of Sanctioned Violence. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1991; Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1995.

Wink, Walter. Engaging the Powers. Minneapolis: Augsburg-Fortress, 1992.

ANDREW MARR, OSB

St Gregory's Abbey

Three Rivers, Michigan