Scott Cowdell: 3 books
René Girard and Secular Modernity
Christ, Culture, and Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
In René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis, Scott Cowdell provides the first systematic interpretation of René Girard’s controversial approach to secular modernity. Cowdell identifies the scope, development, and implications of Girard’s thought, the centrality of Christ...
by Scott Cowdell
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
In his latest book on the ground-breaking work of René Girard (1923–2015), Scott Cowdell sets out a new perspective on mimetic theory and theology: he develops the proposed connection between Girardian thought and theological dramatic theory in new directions, engaging with issues of evolutionary...
Abiding Faith
Christianity Beyond Certainty, Anxiety, and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Australian theologian Scott Cowdell explores how having faith has changed under the influence of modernity and post-modernity in the West. He returns faith from pious sentimentality and arid philosophy of religion to the realm of participating knowing, paradigmatic imagination, and personal transformation...