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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Download: Worship – The Redemption of Desire by Jeff Krantz

Download: A Relational God of Peace by Jordan Blevins  

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  

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

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

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

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

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