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Jesus the Forgiving Victim: Listening for the Unheard Voice Paperback – June 1, 2013

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Jesus the Forgiving Victim offers something quite fresh in the field of introductions to faith and Christian orthodoxy by restoring to the Christian life the wonder and transformative power of discovering not some new Biblical fact or church doctrine, but that you are loved far more than you know. In reading these four books of essays, you will undertake a journey of discovery that will open your heart and mind to discovering new things about yourself and your faith. It is a journey from fake goodness, from a false and insecure self, to relaxing into a goodness and security not your own, but in which you discover yourself held by God. And it is a journey from a unity that needs to create victims toward a unity received from the risen and forgiving victim in our midst. James Alison hopes Jesus the Forgiving Victim will be a meaningful part of your journey toward a deeper faith and fuller life in Christ.

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James Alison is a Catholic theologian and priest. He is the author of a number of books and articles. A native of London, England, he received his theological education from the Dominicans and the Jesuits. Known as an exponent of the thought of René Girard in the English-speaking world, he travels widely with teaching and preaching engagements in many different countries. He currently resides in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Paperback: 572 pages
Publisher: Doers Publishing (June 1, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780981812311
ISBN-13: 978-0981812311
ASIN: 0981812317
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.8 x 7.5 inches
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A Fresh Take on Christianity

January 15, 2015

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This book is really a revelation. As one of the other reviewers mentioned, this may be an introductory book, but it is in no way simplistic or dumbed-down. Alison provides a very fresh take on the meaning and purpose of Christianity, one that I found to be very inspiring and thought-provoking. It also digests the often difficult ideas of Rene Girard into practical, easily accessible pieces.

One should be warned--Alison does not present Christianity in its classic, "traditional" form, and in fact critiques those traditional presentations rather strongly. He also clearly rejects a literal reading of Scripture and embraces critical Biblical scholarship (especially with regard to the Hebrew Scriptures). People coming from more Evangelical or fundamentalist backgrounds--or traditionalist Catholic or Eastern Orthodox backgrounds, for that matter--are going to find his presentation challenging. But he also doesn't rely on the standard "liberal" interpretation of Christianity either, and deals very directly with human sin, atonement, and other classical categories, if in a new way.

Bottom line--this is a wonderful and exciting book for people who want to take a look at Christianity with fresh eyes. Highly, highly recommended.

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Easier to read than grasp without some serious contemplation

April 9, 2014

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New to any in depth exposure to Rene Girard's "mimetic theory," I found myself throughout the book just shy of understanding what the author was advocating (proclaiming, actually), until the very end, when it began to dawn on me how liberating is his good humored and passionate approach to what many of us have heard before but never fully appreciated: Jesus's death and resurrection as enabling the kind of trust that is, in effect, the end of what has been and often remains the history of the human race's theory and practice of "religion" as propitiatory victimization. Powerful, but it took for me a lot of effort that proved more than worth in the end.

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JAN EDWARD GARRETT

A Wondrous Explication of a Hard-to-Swallow Theology

April 21, 2015

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Intellectually I appreciate Fr. Alison's use of Girardian concepts to explicate Gospel-based spirituality, with a thoroughness that escaped Rene Girard himself. The key thing seems to be to find a way to avoid society-destroying human propensities to rivalry without the violent forms of the sacred depending on the scapegoat mechanism.

Girard's analysis distinguishes between internal mediation, where A learns to desire X from his model B but A and B, who now both desire the same thing, become rivals for it, and external mediation in which the model B' is somehow so superior to A that they cannot enter into rivalry, though A can still learn to desire from the external model. This not only fits literary examples, such as Don Quixote's relation to the (even more) fictional Amadis of Gaul about whom DQ read but whom he never met, but also the relation of the putatively resurrected Jesus to his devoted friends.

Alison does not explicitly exploit this distinction in Girard but he does seem to respect it. He is a truly gifted storyteller who uses familiar experiences, creatively reimagined, to suggest how the liberating influence of Jesus transforms those who accept his good news without succumbing to dull moralism and a constant sense of not living up to the ideal. He made (some) sense for me out of many Biblical passages that would have otherwise remained entirely beyond the scope of a plausible anthropology (understood as a study of the human condition).

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A new systematic theology for non-theologians

April 11, 2015

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Alison's work is refreshing and eye-opening, making sense of things in an inspiring way, and laying to rest old systems of belief that help to perpetuate violence and retribution in society. While his other work can be hard to traverse in its scholarship and vocabulary, Jesus the Forgiving Victim is written for lay church groups uninitiated in theological jargon. Especially when experienced in a community (like a book club/discussion group) or in conjunction with the available videos, this is a most satisfying theology that starts from who we are as people, and from that scientific, anthropological foundation, makes a case for a God who created us for a different kind of life here on this planet, and personally shows us the way to make that happen.

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God's Mercy Revisited and Reinterpreted

July 22, 2016

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An exciting excursion into God's love. Alison affirms God loves his/her creation because God is good. He steers clear of morality and moralism. This is a fresh and refreshing examination of grace. It challenges small and selfish understandings of God and dares us to relinquish an angry God who demands sacrifices, for One, the Other other, who embraces his creation and surprises it with grace upon grace. His name is Mercy. Alison does this using stories, interpreting biblical stories and inviting us to find Jesus here and now, as someone who accompanies and guides our choices after having assumed the role of victim in his crucifixion and forgiven his executioners. Alison argues that this defeats the role that redemptive violence has assumed in Western and World civilization for centuries. His is a stimulating, kind and interesting proposition. Well worth the consideration. Highly recommended.
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A fruitful, but challenging approach to the Jesus story.

February 15, 2015

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These are four short books that will give the educated adult a different way of understanding the Bible, and especially the New Testament story of Jesus as "the forgiving victim." The first three are fairly clear, but the fourth volume becomes especially challenging.

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Steven C. Porter

Tough reading, but well worth the effort. Fr ...

December 22, 2015

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Tough reading, but well worth the effort. Fr Alison explores aspect of Catholic Christianity is a challenging way, that lays open the route to a deeper personal spirituality, to a more critical reading of the Bible, and a greater openness to God's work in the world, yesterday, today... and tomorrow.

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Eclectic Reader

inspiring, very readable theology

March 18, 2014

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Alison has a gift for making complicated theological insights accessible to the ordinary reader. This book develops some of his earlier, more scholarly work for a general audience.

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