James Alison: The Forgiving Victim Preview

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What insights into "all the scriptures" did Jesus reveal on the road to Emmaus to his confused and frightened disciples? What happens when we read the Old Testament and the Apostolic witness through the eyes of Jesus, the forgiving victim?

With James Alison as the guide, discover that being a Christian is not principally about being good or believing the right things. A Christian is someone who finds him/herself on the receiving end of an act of communication and, just like the disciples, receiving a revised story about themselves and everything they thought they knew to be true. Using anthropology, a mimetic understanding of how desire and violence work, and old fashioned common sense, James Alison invites us to transform how we think about God, how we pray and worship, and how we go about being good Christians.

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[BbVortexMortinghan]

This is a strange argument. He starts out by indicating that ghosts are a similar image to Jesus' resurrection, but he calls them "fairy tales." And then, the whole next part of the argument strives to make a distinction between the motives of ghosts (vengeful) and the motives of Jesus (non-vengeful) to call attention to the true godliness of Jesus versus the dead people we're "used to hearing from."

He's going the wrong way - he should have realized that both are fairy tales.