Download or read book The Genealogy of Violence written by Charles K. Bellinger and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2001-05-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bellinger draws on the thought of Søoren Kierkegaard and René Girard in search of a Christian understanding of the roots of violence. After analysing approaches to understanding violence he goes on to consider Kierkegaard as a theorist of violence.