Sublime

moment that created it.

Desperate to come up with an explanation, the Church fathers resorted to one of the most absurd theories ever advanced. From the time of Justin Martyr in the second century onwards, they declared that the Devil had plagiarized Christianity by anticipation in order to lead people astray![

It is the Father's excess of love for us that, in filling the heart of Jesus, drives Jesus to his self-emptying.

As long ago as the Renaissance, mystics and scholars saw the origins of Christianity in the ancient Egyptian religion.

The decisive development that paved the way for the Cathars’ great predecessors, the Bogomils, was the establishment of the first Bulgarian empire (681–1118).

honour where we have come from,

René Girard calls models in Celebristan external mediators of desire. They influence desire from outside of a person’s immediate world. From the perspective of their imitators, these models possess a special quality of being.

INTRODUCTION