Paul Lynch Unisex Multicolor Persuasions Of God Hardcover Book

Paul Lynch

Persuasions of GodInventing the Rhetoric of Ren Girard\nAuthor(s): Paul Lynch\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271097091, 978-0271097091\nSynopsis\nThe nations of the global north find themselves in a post-secular or post-Christian period, one in which the practice, expression, and effects of religion are undergoing massive shifts. In Persuasions of God, Paul Lynch pursues a project of theorhetoric, a radical new approach to speaking about the divine. \n\nSearching for new religious forms amid the lingering influence of Christianity, Lynch turns to Ren Girard, the most important twentieth-century thinker on the sacred and its expression within the Christian tradition. Lynch repurposes Girards mimetic theory to invent a post-Christian way of speaking to, for, and especially about God. Girard theorized the sacred as the nexus of violence, order, and sacralization that lies at the.