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Rene Girard

Can violence ever serve a redemptive purpose?

August 31, 2018 by Randal

Rene Girard was a literary critic and theologian who developed a very influential non-violent reading of the atonement. According to the penal substitution model of atonement, God the Father reconciles us to himself through the violent death of his innocent son who absorbs the divine wrath properly owing to us. In direct opposition to this […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atonement, greater goods, problem of evil, redemptive violence, Rene Girard

20. Theologian Michael Hardin on violence and atonement

October 14, 2013 by Randal

This time on The Tentative Apologist Podcast we sit down for a conversation with theologian Michael Hardin. Michael is a scholar who has studied the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Rene Girard and who also counts Girard as a personal friend. Michael is also a visionary and activist, and together with his wife Lorri he founded the […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atonement, Michael Hardin, Rene Girard, violence

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