A review: Wolfgang Palaver’s – Rene Girard’s Mimetic Theory
Imitatio has described Palaver’s text as the new go-to guide for mimetic theory – and it seems to me they’re absolutely right. Palaver has done an excellent and thorough job summarizing […]
Internally Mediated Mixups
Human beings are relational beings – political animals as Aristotle put it. We find our consciousness in the relation to the other, and we fix our desires on objects that […]
Historicism and Realism?
I’d like to return back to the safe haven of philosophy. While I love theology, and theological questions, and waxing theological, I can’t help but lose my sense of humor […]
Love one another as I have loved you
Mimetic theory helps us to understand the “why” behind so many of the central teachings of Christ. We are told repeatedly, both by Jesus himself, St. Paul, and the rest […]
A review: Beneath the Veil of the Strange Verses – Reading Scandalous Texts by Jeremiah L. Alberg
This review will probably have to be written in several parts. I received a wonderful blessing in the mail a few days ago – a copy of the above mentioned […]
The inaugural Rene Girard lecture delivered by Timothy Snyder
The inaugural Rene Girard lecture was hosted on March 13 in San Francisco and was delivered by Timothy Snyder – it has just been posted online at imitatio.org, thanks to […]
Interview with John Allen Jr. (NCR) and Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia on life and family
What’s your first impression of Pope Francis? My first impression is that of a man of God, a pope that not just the church but the whole world needed. Throughout […]
