A Better Atonement

Read this:  A Better Atonement: The Last Scapegoat

then follow up with this:

http://www.jamesalison.co.uk/texts/eng11.html

http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=16-10-040-i

and finally, Abbott Andrew of St. Gregory's Abbey has a fine blog that also looks at the issue of mimetic desire in many of his blog posts:

http://andrewmarrosb.wordpress.com/

http://andrewmarrosb.wordpress.com/articles/saved-by-the-life-of-jesus/