Jean-Daniel CAUSSE
IL N'Y A DE GRÂCE QU'INSENSÉE
Résumé
Abstract
Jean-Daniel CAUSSE's essay focuses on the relationship between grace and participation. After a brief historical survey of the discussions generated by this topic, he shows that Christian grace is characterized by a qualitative, not quantitative, excess. What makes the excess of grace specific is that it empowers human beings to refuse any identification with what they know about themselves or with the place they have been assigned to. Grace breaks thereby with the world of meaning before reopening its potentialities. The story of the adulterous woman in the New Testament (John 8:1-11), in which Jesus twice writes on the ground with his finger, serves as an illustration to this understanding of grace.
Notes
Jean-Daniel CAUSSE est professeur à l'Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III (département de psychanalyse) et à l'Institut Protestant de Théologie, Montpellier (département d'éthique).