A Human Catechism
A Journey from Violence and Collective Woundedness to Peacebuilding
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2024
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Publisher's Description
A Human Catechism is a theopoetic journey. It is the integration of personal experience, theological reflection, and contextual analysis. This book proposes a radical way of discipleship in which we are invited to run the risk of positively imitating one another through the imitation of Christ. If violence happens through the imitation of one another, maybe good things do too. As the reader embarks on a contextually self-reflective journey, this book invites us to take the chance of believing in a God in whom there is no violence. A Human Catechism will be a journey from what seemed impossible, to what became second nature, all the way to becoming responsible for modeling a way of being otherwise to those around us.
Endorsements (3)
“Here is a pioneering work in applying mimetic theory to the understanding of discipleship in the modern world. A Human Catechism opens up a three-dimensional way of living the gospel with and alongside every different sort of ‘other,’ as well as preparing us for all the traps and forms of blindness we may fall into on the way.”
“I have been waiting for a book like this! A book that is theologically and anthropologically robust while not avoiding personal and communal application. Joel Aguilar Ramirez gives his reader a true narrative road map towards an embodied theology and liberative psychology. This book is an invitation towards a way of being human that is located in honesty and curiosity.”
“In A Human Catechism, Joel Aguilar Ramirez invites us to a journey of becoming fully human. First he explores the cost of following an angry God waiting at the altar. He then proposes an alternative theological vision of a God with whom there is no violence. This is one of the first works to use Rene Girard’s mimetic theory to read a contemporary and practical context. Highly recommended!”
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