The Lamb of God and the Forgiveness of Sin(s) in the Fourth Gospel

The article presents a speech by Sandra M. Schneiders of the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, delivered at the 73rd International Meeting of the Catholic Biblical Association of America, which was held at the Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, July 31-August 3, 2010, in which she discussed the violence issue and the role of Christian Scripture in alleviating such dilemma, the Messiahship of Jesus Christ, and God\u27s salvific plan to mankind

'Our Darker Purpose' : the calculus of desire in King Lear : a Girardian reading

Rene Girard has always seen in Shakespeare's work a supreme example of his mimetic theory applied with genius in a dramatic context. He sees in King Lear a kind of summa which brings to 'a sharp focus . .. the mimetic vision.' Using key Girardian concepts like mimetic desire and rivalry, the crisis of Degree, sacred violence, and the victimage mechanism as hermeneutical tools, and applying them rigorously and systematically to the text may yieldfresh and illuminating insights into one of the greatest tragedies of Shakespeare.peer-reviewe

Proof-irrelevance out of excluded-middle and choice in the calculus of constructions

We present a short and direct syntactic proof of the fact that adding the axiom of choice and the principle of excluded-middle to Coquand-Huet's Calculus of Constructions gives proof-irrelevanc