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Mimetic theory as heuristic -- Mimetic theory and rational faith -- Mimetic theory and the theology of revelation -- Realizing a mimetic theology of religion -- Imagining a mimetic ecclesiology -- Trajectories of modernity: Girard and Taylor in conversation -- Mimetic theory and atheism -- One final apology

The following article argues that the United States bishops have adopted an objective rhetoric, meaning a rhetoric that focuses attention on the "content" of the argument instead of the person making the argument. Such a rhetoric is bound to fail after the abuse scandal that has beset the American Catholic Church. A subjective rhetoric assumes that the person making the argument cannot be separated from the content of the argument. The documents of the Second Vatican Council hint at the possibility of a subjective rhetoric that has, paradoxically, been employed with success by radical Islamic groups. Contemporary European theologians, especially Johannes Baptist Metz, have laid the groundwork for a subjective rhetoric through what they call "practical fundamental theology." Such an approach offers a model of apologetics that is more scriptural & more plausible than the approach currently taken by the United States bishops when attempting to discuss issues of war & peace. 37 References. Adapted from the source document.