Scott Cowdell is Research Professor in Theology at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, and Canon Theologian of the Canberra-Goulburn Anglican diocese. His PhD is from the University of Queensland. He is the author of ten books, most recently René Girard and the Nonviolent God (University of Notre Dame Press, 2018) and Mimetic Theory and its Shadow: Girard, Milbank, and Ontological Violence (forthcoming with Michigan State University Press). With Joel Hodge and Chris Fleming he founded the Australian Girard Seminar in 2011, serving as its President and co-editing its ‘Violence, Desire, and the Sacred’ series with Bloomsbury Academic.