Transcripts of René Girard Lectures on Mimetic Theory and Christian Revelation

The bi_girard directory contains a curated set of lecture transcripts by the French scholar René Girard, presented in English and compiled by the Arke Institute. The collection is organized as a single metadata record (JSON) that describes the series, followed by seven PDF files—one for each lecture.

Overview

| Item | Description | Size (bytes) | URL | |------|-------------|--------------|-----| | Metadata record | JSON description of the collection | – | – | | Lecture I | Introduction to Mimetic Theory | 713 305 | | | Lecture II | Mimetic Desire and Original Sin | 616 555 | | | Lecture III | Mimetic Rivalry and Girard’s Theodicy | 663 018 | | | Lecture IV | The Scapegoat Mechanism | 624 661 | | | Lecture V | The Christian Revelation | 603 645 | | | Lecture VI | The Triumph of Modernity | 890 623 | | | Lecture VII | The One Who Withholds | 697 759 | |

All PDFs are provided in high‑resolution format, suitable for reading, printing, or archival preservation.

Lecture Series

The seven lectures form a coherent narrative that traces Girard’s development of mimetic theory—the idea that human desire is imitative—and its theological implications. The sequence is:

Introduction to Mimetic Theory – foundational concepts of desire, imitation, and rivalry.

Mimetic Desire and Original Sin – how imitation underlies the biblical notion of sin.

**Mimetic Rivalry and