Rene Girard Quotes
The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification of that lie, which comes from the true God and which reopens channels of communication mankind itself had closed through self-imprisonment in its own violent cultures.
Girard, René. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World. Translated by Stephen Bann and Michael Metteer, Stanford University Press, 1987.
Dulles advocated a strong relationship with post World War II Japan for economic and geopolitical reasons. When asked how he could forgive the Japanese for their major war crimes like the Bataan Death March, he replied:
René Noël Théophile Girard was a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of anthropological philosophy. Girard was the author of nearly thirty books, with his writings spanning many academic domains. Although the reception of his work is different in each of these areas, there is a growing body of secondary literature on his work and his influence on disciplines such as literary criticism, critical theory, anthropology, theology, psychology, mythology, sociology, economics, cultural studies, and philosophy.
