Mimesis and Atonement

Sheelah Treflé Hidden is Research Associate in the Heythrop Institute: Religion and Society at the University of London, UK. She is the editor of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mystical Perspectives on the Love of God (2014).Michael Kirwan SJ is Director of the Heythrop Institute: Religion and Science at the University of London, UK.

• List of ContributorsPrefaceForeword Rowan Williams (Master, Magdalene College, The University of Cambridge, UK)1 Traversing Hostility: The sine qua non of Any Christian Talk about AtonementJames Alison (Imitatio Foundation)2 Jewish Atonement and the Book of Jonah: From Sacrifice to Non-ViolenceVanessa Avery (Webster University, USA)3 Orthodox Debates in the Twentieth Century on the Question of AtonementAntoine Arjakovsky (Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France)4 Wright, Wrong and Wrath: Apocalypse in Paul and in GirardStephen Finamore (Bristol Baptist College, UK)5 Paul and Girard Agonistes: Against Theological ViolenceAnthony Bartlett (Syracuse University, USA)6 Salvation through Forgiveness or through the Cross? Raymund Schwager’s Dramatic Solution to a False AlternativeNikolaus Wandinger (University of Innsbruck, Austria)7 ‘Strategies of Grace’: Mimesis as Conversion in Girard and in TheologyMichael Kirwan(Heythrop Institute, University of London, UK)8 Violence Unveiled: Understanding Christianity and Politics in Northern Ireland after René Girard’s Re-reading of AtonementDuncan Morrow(University of Ulster, UK)9 Sacrifice and Atonement: Strengthening the Trinitarian Aspects of Mimetic TheoryArpad Szakolczai (University College, Cork, Ireland)Index

Mimesis and Atonement brings together a variety of perspectives, giving the reader a glimpse of the significance and richness of Girard’s work for religious thinkers … Girard is not a figure that theologians can afford to ignore, and this book is a fine example of engagement with his thought … This reviewer commends Mimesis and Atonement to all scholars and students who have any interest in the significance of Girard for atonement theory, and for broader questions of sacrifice, violence, and reconciliation.