The author of Violence and the Sacred looks at the Gospels as a map to human behaviour and sees striking parallels with modern human behaviour.

Beyond question one of the seminal Christian thinkers of our time

A brilliantly accessible presentation of one of the most enlightening intellectual breakthroughs to come from the twentieth century. Gerard enables us to talk for the first time about a ‘phenomenology of redemption.’  Robert J Daly SJ, Boston College