Abstract

Violence is one of the crucial issues that always dominates modern theological discourses. However, the discussion is not limited to theological discourses because violence is one of the most prominent problems for human beings today, religious and irreligious alike. Violence manifests itself in various forms, including the use of religious outlook for support. Perhaps this means that violence is pervasive in the nature of human being since it always occurs again and again in human history without any possibility to fully eradicate it. Perhaps the best way that humans can do is to minimalize or restrain it.Among contemporary thinkers who have written on the problem of violence, René Girard’s understanding of...