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Atti del Convegno 2005

Acta Fhilosophica Atti del Convegno 2005 Atti del Convegno 2003

 

Mimesis and God's Plan of Salvation
John Paul Wauck

In the Poetics, Aristotle maintains that the inclination to imitate is a basic feature of human nature. If this is the case, then it should play a role in God's plan for humanity. Writing from a Christian perspective, the literary scholar Rene Girard has offered a fundamentally moral interpretation of this mimetic drive both in Western literature and in the Bible, but it would also be possible to view the entire story of salvation -- from Genesis to the end of time -- from the point of view of mimesis, and this paper is a preliminary sketch of such an analysis: an overview of the role that mimesis plays in Christian theology.

 

 

 

 

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