Abstracts numero 2024/3

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  • - Le culte : célébration de l’alliance ou accès sacralisé à Dieu, deux visions vétérotestamentaires (Ex 24,1-11 et Lv 8–9)

    • Worship: celebration of the covenant or sacred access to God, two Old Testament visions (Ex 24:1-11 and Lev 8–9)

    Ex 24:1-11 and Lev 8–9 recount two inaugural celebrations of worship at Sinai in keeping with divine instructions. According to the author, their comparison shows their proximity – both end with a theophany and legitimise social functions – but also their differences – the celebration of the covenant in Ex 24, the importance of reconciliation rites and the exclusivity of the Aaronic priesthood in Lev 8–9. These two visions have left their mark on the history of worship.

    Keywords : Exodus 24,1-11, Leviticus 8–9, worship, sacrifices, consecration, communion, rite

  • - Osée, prophète agrarien. Théologie agrarienne et écologie

    • Hosea, agrarian prophet. Agrarian theology and ecology

    Agrarian theology makes a major contribution to reflection on ecology in the Bible. This article aims to highlight what we can learn from the book of Hosea. Based on Ellen Davis’s reading of certain prophetic books, which she describes as agrarian, we will see that one of Hosea’s specific features is to link the violence done to the land with the one inflicted on family structures and worship: adultery is a metaphor for economic and social crimes. Conversely, harmony between humans and with nature depends on their fidelity to God, who responds to the expectations of the earth as much as those of heaven. In fact, ecology may well be a matter of justice between each human being and his brother.

    Keywords : Hosea, agrarian theology, Ellen Davis, ecology, prophetic books, justice

     

  • - L’existence se laisse-t-elle rabattre dans l’immanence ?

    • Can existence be reduced to immanence?

    In European countries characterized by the Enlightenment and post-modernity, the place of God in society has continued to shrink. While there are still believers, Christians and non-Christians alike, and religious communities attached to him, for a large proportion of our contemporaries the world has lost any transcendent aspect and has become flattened. But can we really do without transcendence? This article uses Jean-Pierre Dupuy’s notion of the “encompassing of opposites” to show that immanence-based thinking conceals hidden folds of transcendence, that the debate is between transcendence and self-transcendence, and that Christianity has a trump card to play here.

    Keywords : transcendence, immanence, self-transcendence, encompassing opposites, collapse, Christianity, paradox, reason, faith, debate

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  • - Histoire d’une liberté dans la France moderne. Protestants, politique et monarchie (vers 1598-vers 1629)

    • History of a freedom in modern France. Protestants, politics and the monarchy (c. 1598-c. 1629) 

    This Ph.D. dissertation analyses the political history of the French reformed church in the early seventeenth century through the prism of the notion of liberty: liberty as the defense of the legal gains conferred by the regime of the Edict of Nantes, but also as the capacity for action, as appropriation of modes of action and as constant reconfiguration of the framework within which this action took place. Far from seeing the Huguenots as passive victims of an “all-Catholic France”, they are analyzed as political actors, in the sense that they were capable of investing in and thinking about their political action, and of initiating it within a relationship with royal power that was being reconfigured at the end of the Wars of Religion. This ability to act is analyzed in two stages: firstly, we examine the characteristics that underpin this freedom of action in the context of the seventeenth century, and particularly the regime of the Edict of Nantes, through a study of the place accorded to institutions, memory, union and language in their practices. We then look at how this political freedom was put into practice, examining changes in the Huguenot party, its relationship with institutions, the nobility and language strategies following the death of Henri IV. Finally, we devote an epilogue to the death of this political culture: the end of the Huguenot party was not the result of internal dissension, but of a political will that specifically sought to attack this freedom, and was built, to a certain extent, in opposition to it.

    Keywords : French Protestantism, Reformed, freedom, political history, Wars of Religion, Edict of Nantes, 17th century, language

     

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