The woman saved from stoning: An answer to scapegoats and scapegoating

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Jennifer Garcia Bashaw
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According to René Girard, Jesus is the scapegoat to end all scapegoats. The Gospels reveal that his voluntary death as an innocent scapegoat unmasks the scapegoating process in which human societies participate and frees humanity from its power. Jesus’s passion is not the only episode from the Gospels that provides an antidote to scapegoating. In the story of the woman saved from stoning (John 8:2-11), Jesus calms a scapegoating storm, de-escalates a mob, and thwarts the scapegoaters. Jesus removes the scapegoat target from the woman’s back and focuses attention where it belongs: on the wrongs of the accusers. In his interactions with the woman, Jesus frees her from blame and treats her like a human being made in the image of God, not an object to be used. Jesus offers a glimpse into how to create a future without scapegoating, a future in which we turn our gazes to our own sins and treat those who are marginalized and targeted for blame not as scapegoats but as image-bearers worthy of love.
从石刑中获救的女人:对替罪羊和替罪羊的回答
根据雷诺·吉拉德的说法,耶稣是终结所有替罪羊的替罪羊。福音书揭示了他作为一个无辜的替罪羊的自愿死亡,揭示了人类社会参与的替罪羊过程,并将人类从其权力中解放出来。耶稣的受难并不是福音书中唯一一个为替罪羊提供解药的情节。在被石头砸死的女人的故事中(约翰福音8:2-11),耶稣平息了一场替罪羊风暴,平息了一群暴徒,挫败了替罪羊。耶稣把替罪羊的靶子从女人的背上移开,把注意力集中在该注意的地方:控告者的错误。在他与女人的互动中,耶稣使她免于责备,把她当作一个按照上帝的形象创造的人,而不是一个被利用的对象。耶稣让我们看到了如何创造一个没有替罪羊的未来,一个我们把目光转向自己的罪,把那些被边缘化和被指责的人不当作替罪羊,而是作为值得爱的形象承载者的未来。
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