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Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise

On mimeses

Girardian foundations

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Richard L. Johnson
Jun 01, 2021
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What is the basis of imitating Jesus? It cannot be his ways of being or his personal habits: imitation is never about that in the Gospels. Neither does Jesus propose an ascetic rule of life in the sense of Thomas a Kempis and his celebrated Imitation of Christ, as admirable as that work may be. What Jesus invites us to imitate is his own desire, the spi…

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