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Tim H working towards: Catholic news and reflections from the perspective of what Grant Kaplan has called the "mimetic fundamental ecclesiology" of James Alison
Jan 4, 2022 • 98 tweets • 15 min read
"Just as the Eucharist--the source and summit of the Christian life ['totius vitae christianae fontem et culmen']--is the sacrifice that undoes sacrifice, so the Church is the community that radically reorients community. "[The Church] provides a space and time in which to grow into this new being...and to undo false ways of belonging."
Jan 4, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
"That it is 'Christ crucified for you' who is the foundation of [the church's] new being is made clear by the ironic question in 1 Cor 1:13 'Was Paul Crucified for you?', linked to Paul's clear understanding that there is only one foundation, Christ Jesus (1 Cor. 3:11). "It is this that is foundational of the community, and the way into participation in it is by imitation of the self-giving that led to Jesus' being crucified. Hence the centrality to Paul's discussion of the Eucharist...
Oct 22, 2021 • 100 tweets • 17 min read
What is "mimetic fundamental ecclesiology"? @GrantAKaplan, who coined the phrase, explains in his book Rene Girard: Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology...
(1/n) Image "Just as the Eucharist--the source and summit of the Christian life ['totius vitae christianae fontem et culmen']--is the sacrifice that undoes sacrifice, so the the Church is the community that radically reorients community.
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