Résumé
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The Gospel and Religion: a marriage of passion or reason? As long as we discuss that deep relationship that joins the believer to God - God's commitment in the history of mankind, culminating in the Incarnation - what the Bible calls the Alliance - passion is truly the binding force between the Gospel and Religion, and so it has been since Jesus of Nazareth announced and spread the Good News in a strict reference to God, his Father. But when we evoke the eventful history of the socialization of Christianity, starting from the Roman Emperor Constantine (4th century) - the progressive building of an institution, indeed a system - then tensions tend to appear, even contradictions, between Gospel and Religion. The Gospel's force of innovation and freedom is gradually constrained, often countered, by Religion's need for order, stability, social identity, security and conservatism, as a social, hierarchical institution of power and knowledge, rites and dogma. Yet what could be interpreted as a diminution, even degradation, was necessary. Believers, human beings, are not pure spirits. The "incarnation of the Gospel" was inescapable. But it remains for believers to learn to give and take, to live their Christianity and faith in a dialectical and harmonious manner. A marriage of passion and reason: learning to live one's intimate relation with God and with one's brothers according to one's own character and specificity - in other words, one's "personal religion" - through the union of the spirit and participation in those symbolic manifestations required by the community of believers and the Church that gives them their structure and permits believers to live and endure in fidelity to the Gospel.
L'auteur - Jean Mansir
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Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Jean Mansir |
Collection | Parole presente |
Parution | 03/02/2011 |
Format | 13.4 x 19.7 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 250g |
EAN13 | 9782204093187 |
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