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James Alison: The Forgiving Victim Preview

Theologian

James Alison


Duration

14.35


Uploaded to YouTube

19 April 2011

Added to Database

20 August 2025


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For more of James's work, see http://www.jamesalison.co.uk/ For more of the Raven Foundation, see http://www.ravenfoundation.org/ What insights into "all the scriptures" did Jesus reveal on the road to Emmaus to his confused and frightened disciples? What happens when we read the Old Testament and the Apostolic witness through the eyes of Jesus, the forgiving victim? With James Alison as the guide, discover that being a Christian is not principally about being good or believing the right things. A Christian is someone who finds him/herself on the receiving end of an act of communication and, just like the disciples, receiving a revised story about themselves and everything they thought they knew to be true. Using anthropology, a mimetic understanding of how desire and violence work, and old fashioned common sense, James Alison invites us to transform how we think about God, how we pray and worship, and how we go about being good Christians.