Download: Violence, Anarchy and Scripture: Jacques Ellul and Rene Girard by Matthew Patillo  

Download: Resurrection As Atonement: Rediscovering the Nonviolence of Christian Orthodoxy using Girard’s Principle of Metaphysical by Britton W. Johnston  

Download: Girard’s Christology – Per Bjornar Grande (PDF)  

Review by Jeff Krantz Please don’t read this if you’re concerned about having the movie spoiled for you. (Though you’ll be able to predict most

Download: Comparing Plato’s Understanding of Mimesis to Girard’s (PDF) – Per Bjorner Grande  

Download: An essay by the Rev. John Hill on Mimetic Theory and Catechesis (PDF)  

Download: Myth and Film – a piece written by Jeff Krantz for the City of Angels Film Festival

The Civic and the Nomadic in the Hebrew Bible Sketch of a Talk Prepared for COV&R 2010 to be delivered at the University of Notre

Download: Gerald Biesecker-Mast’s paper from Theologia Pacis on Pacifist Gospel Epistemology. 

By Matthew J. Distefano In this essay, I am going to attempt to articulate what I believe is a consistent message contained within four of

Download: “Jesus and the Gibeonites: Reading the Bible from the Perspective of the Hidden Victim” by James Warren.  

Alan Cork, “Transformation” in L’Arche: A Mimetic Account presented to the Colloquium on Violence and Religion 2008  

Download: Resisting the Empire: Fidelity to the Gospel of Life by Robert J. Arner  

Download: Worship – The Redemption of Desire by Jeff Krantz

July 24, 2011Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52Thomas L. and Laura C. TrubyDownload PDF Jesus, the Mustard Seed How many of you went to a fireworks display this

Recently, three very different films (all three the third in their own series!) passed through our local theaters, all of them fantastical enough that they

Download: A Relational God of Peace by Jordan Blevins  

Crucified Son of Man or Mighty One? Mark’s Chiastic Gospel Structure and the question of Jesus’ identity Jeffrey H. Krantz jkrantz@optonline.net ( If the Greek

Download: Escaping the Power of “My” – A NonViolent Approach to Stewardship by Jeff Krantz

Download: Holy Scripture and the Consecration of Gene Robinson – a response to the request of the Windsor Report for a Scriptural rationale by Jeff Krantz