Beguiling Belonging rethinks questions of catholicity, ecclesiology, and belonging through the lens of René Girard’s anthropology. The chapters examine how Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection unmask humanity’s scapegoat mechanism and demonstrate that, in Christ’s self-offering, this violent dynamic is decisively undone. The result is an invitation for Christians to rediscover their identity not as belonging to a sacred institution that draws boundaries around “insiders” and “outsiders,” but rather to a reconciling body that refuses to remain blind to its collective tendencies toward creating false unity at the expense of others.