La littérature française et la connaissance de dieu
Alain Michel - Collection Théologies
Résumé
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Volume I - The renewal of questions: reason, emotion, faith After the Revolutionary crisis, Chateaubriand saves Christianity not by his political stances, but by the vision of love emanating from his poetry. This is also true, in a freer fashion, for other writers such as Madame de Staël, Ballanche, Maine de Biran, Nodier. Romantism is one of the most intense periods of religious meditation in the 19th century. Lamennais and Lacordaire define what form love might take in politics. Balzac's realism does not exclude the Christian point of view, which is ultimately that of joy despite pain and in the humiliation of inevitable defeat. Lamartine affirms the unity of God and the hope of the supreme pardon through love, always triumphant though always desperate. Volume II - The great synthesis: positivism, ideals, visions Baudelaire drove his quest for the absolute to the point where he identified with nothingness, and infinite compassion was the only answer to the 'ardent sob prolonged through the ages'. The whole century can be summed up in Victor Hugo, who combines the most positive spirit with a generous audacity of vision to amalgamate all sorrows, even Satan's, in the contemplation of a God, a mystery of love, both light and darkness. Volume III - Philosophies of dialogue and dialogue of philosophies : difference, comprehension, dialogue Flaubert blends sceptical despair with the deepest religious feeling, as the 'Trois contes' or 'Bouvard et Pécuchet' show, both faithful to his search for truth and tenderness. Rimbaud reaches Christianity via his despair and his high vision of purity. At the same time the Russians, known in France only in the 20th century, affirm that the most excruciating madness can belong to Christ, whose image is revealed by the Prince Muichkine. The Christian writers of the end of the 19th century and the 20th also show that there exists a suffering of God provoked by man, that always remains greater than his anger: men should console God. Huysmans and Bloy know this. Claudel, Péguy and Bernanos of course must not allow us to forget the religious concern which is manifest in the existentialism of Sartre or Camus, and in the modern pessimism of Beckett and Ionesco...
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Alain Michel |
Collection | Théologies |
Parution | 21/11/2008 |
Format | 15 x 22.8 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 3298g |
EAN13 | 9782204086622 |
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