Anthony Bartlett is engaged in post-doctoral research and is an instructor in Religion at Syracuse University.
"...[A] powerful and provocative read for Christians and
non-Christians alike. Anthony Bartlett has accomplished quite a
feat: he has managed to say something new and profound about
Christianity, and has done so with deep erudition and in such a
humanly compelling voice that even non-theists may well find
themselves seduced by his argument, as I was. No issue could be
more important for those effected by the power of monotheism in the
world today - and that, for better or worse, includes just about
everyone - than the question of violence and atonement. Bartlett's
thesis is radical and provocative, and his book will stimulate much
reflection and, literally, soul searching on the part of Christians
and non-Christians alike." - Larry George, PhD., Dept. of Political
Science, Adelphia University
"Bartlett's book evinces prodigious scholarship as well as an acute
insight and poetic skill at conveying the contemporary experience
of abandonment to violence. The strongest part of Bartlett's
discussion of the experience of the first Christians, and his
argument that the conversion experience sprang more from ‘an
apocalyptic crisis bringing the end of an old order, rather than a
sacrificial reading that essentially reaffirms a traditional Temple
order on a cosmic scale' (p. 207)" -The Heythrop Journal, July 2004
(vol. 45, issue #3)
"Anthony Bartlett offers a groundbreaking thesis on how and why
Christ saves us from sin and death. Bartlett argues forcefully and
persuasively that Christ overcomes violence and scandal in the
weakness of the Cross, which is the transforming power of infinite
compassion seeking us in the depth of our anxiety and forsakenness.
This is a treatise that uses Girard's idea of the generative
mimetic scapegoat mechanism and Kierkegaard's concepts of
repetition and anxiety in a brilliant fashion."--James G. Williams,
the author of The Bible, Violence, and The Sacred and editor of The
Girard Reader
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"In this powerful book, Anthony Bartlett shows that, just as the
Gospels claim, the apocalyptic theme must belong to Jesus' own
understanding of the Cross. Jesus' violent death reveals the
violent origin of all the human cultures which separate us from
God, and it unleashes both the total violence of man and the
'abysmal' love of God. A milestone in the new understanding of the
Cross." -- René Girard, author of Violence and the Sacred
*Blurb from reviewer*
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