@article{ref1,
title="Gianni vattimo and renÉ girard on the uniqueness of christianity",
journal="Heythrop journal",
year="2009",
author="Depoortere, Frederiek",
volume="50",
number="5",
pages="877-889",
abstract="The possibility of a naturalistic explanation of religious phenomena (including Christianity) which is offered by natural science gives the question of the uniqueness of Christianity a new urgency, for it raises the question of whether an irreducible otherness in Christianity vis-à-vis a generally-human, natural religiosity (which may be explained naturalistically) can be demonstrated. In what follows, we shall discuss the answer of two contemporary thinkers to this question: that of the Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo and that of the French-American literary critic and fundamental anthropologist René Girard. There is also an interesting link between both thinkers, as we shall see below – Vattimo has stated that it was his reading of Girard which made him return to Christianity after having abandoned it earlier in his life.<p />",
language="",
issn="0018-1196",
doi="10.1111/j.1468-2265.2008.00468.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2265.2008.00468.x"
}