Symphonie trinitaire (La)
de René Coste
Collection Théologies
320 pages - mars 2010
34,10€
« Étudier en profondeur les écrits johanniques. » Tel est le propos du père René Coste. Son étude ne vise qu'à une seule chose : faire découvrir au lecteur la vie de communion que proposent tous les évangiles, et le quatrième d'entre eux en particulier. Citons les mots de l'auteur de la première lettre johannique : « Notre communion est communion avec le Père et avec son Fils Jésus-Christ. » Cette communion, on y entre par quelqu'un. Celui que le quatrième évangile appelle « le Verbe » (la Parole). De sorte que les lecteurs des écrits johanniques sont immédiatement portés vers les sommets de la christologie moyennant l'amicale familiarité du Verbe de Dieu, son humaine proximité. Mais c'est bien au mot « communion » que ce livre accorde toute l'attention. Il est, en effet, au cœur de la théologie et de la spiritualité de l'amour que René Coste développe dans son étude de l'évangile. Il insiste à juste raison : la communion à laquelle appelle l'Évangile n'a pas seulement une dimension verticale. Elle se déploie tout autant en communion fraternelle avec nos frères et sœurs chrétiens, et, potentiellement, avec nos sœurs et frères humains, tous aimés par Dieu et appelés par lui à participer à la communion d'amour absolu des Trois Divines Personnes. Nous ne devrons pas oublier un seul instant cette perspective de la communion universelle possible avec le Dieu trinitaire. René Coste refait le chemin ouvert autrefois, il y a bien longtemps, par le mystérieux « disciple bien-aim頻. Il le fait avec sagesse. Il déploie sa méditation, partage une science vaste et très sûre dont la lumière ouvre de magnifiques horizons. En toute confiance, le lecteur peut se laisser entraîner lui aussi sur ce chemin et entrer à son tour dans la symphonie trinitaire, dans la divine relation d'amour où chacun a sa place.
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‘To study the Johannic writings in depth’: this is Father René Coste’s aim. His study has only one goal: to allow the reader to discover the life of fellowship presented by all the Gospels, but especially the fourth. Let us quote the words of the author of the first Johannic letter: ‘Our fellowship is a fellowship with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ.’ We must enter into that fellowship through someone. The one the fourth Gospel calls ‘the Word’. In this way, the readers of the Johannic writings are immediately taken to the summits of Christology through a convivial familiarity with the Word of God, his human proximity. But it is the word ‘fellowship’ to which this book devotes all its attention. It lies at the heart of the theology and spirituality of love that René Coste develops in his study of the gospels. He insists, and rightly so, that the fellowship to which the Gospel invites us does not only have a vertical dimension. It is also active in a fraternal manner with our Christian brothers and sisters, and, potentially, with our human brothers and sisters, all loved by God and called upon to participate in the fellowship of absolute love of the Three Divine Beings. Not for a moment should we forget this perspective of universal fellowship made possible by the Trinitarian God. René Coste retraces the path opened long, long ago by the mysterious ‘well-loved disciple’. He does so with great wisdom, drawing on his meditation, sharing his vast and sound knowledge, enlightening magnificent horizons. In all confidence, readers can allow themselves to be led along the path and, in their turn, enter into the Trinitarian symphony, the divine relation of love where each and every one of us has a place.
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‘To study the Johannic writings in depth’: this is Father René Coste’s aim. His study has only one goal: to allow the reader to discover the life of fellowship presented by all the Gospels, but especially the fourth. Let us quote the words of the author of the first Johannic letter: ‘Our fellowship is a fellowship with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ.’ We must enter into that fellowship through someone. The one the fourth Gospel calls ‘the Word’. In this way, the readers of the Johannic writings are immediately taken to the summits of Christology through a convivial familiarity with the Word of God, his human proximity. But it is the word ‘fellowship’ to which this book devotes all its attention. It lies at the heart of the theology and spirituality of love that René Coste develops in his study of the gospels. He insists, and rightly so, that the fellowship to which the Gospel invites us does not only have a vertical dimension. It is also active in a fraternal manner with our Christian brothers and sisters, and, potentially, with our human brothers and sisters, all loved by God and called upon to participate in the fellowship of absolute love of the Three Divine Beings. Not for a moment should we forget this perspective of universal fellowship made possible by the Trinitarian God. René Coste retraces the path opened long, long ago by the mysterious ‘well-loved disciple’. He does so with great wisdom, drawing on his meditation, sharing his vast and sound knowledge, enlightening magnificent horizons. In all confidence, readers can allow themselves to be led along the path and, in their turn, enter into the Trinitarian symphony, the divine relation of love where each and every one of us has a place.
- Dimensions : 145x235x18
- ISBN : 9782204084512
- Poids : 470 grammes
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