Vieillir avec la Bible
Collection Épiphanie
272 pages - janv. 2008
22,00€
« Vieillir avec la Bible » n'est ni une autobiographie ni un ouvrage d'exégèse. C'est le bilan de quarante-cinq ans de fréquentation assidue de la Bible par un homme qui a tenté de la mettre en pratique sans jamais cesser de confronter le faire avec le dire. Au fil des lignes, l'auteur est conduit à reconsidérer les textes de l'Écriture loin de la langue de bois : ainsi les représentations de Dieu, les pratiques de Jésus et les chemins tracés par les Psaumes prennent une tournure nouvelle et inattendue. Les années de guerre en Algérie, son engagement comme prêtre-ouvrier et la crise de 1954 poussant à l'exil les meilleurs théologiens, sa vie dans un quartier populaire pauvre de Lille, son expérience de formateur auprès des jeunes frères dominicains, l'assassinat de son ami Pierre Claverie à Oran en 1996 et une opération du cancer qui l'a obligé à regarder sa propre mort en face, conduisent l'auteur à rendre compte de la pertinence du pari qu'il a fait sur Dieu, sur Jésus et son Évangile – bonne nouvelle pour les pauvres – et sur une vie spirituelle mise au service d'une fraternité universelle identifiée à la vie tout court. Une parole féconde à l'épreuve de l'expérience humaine d'aujourd'hui, parole d'un homme libre dont l'appartenance à l'Église est avant tout une extraordinaire expérience de la fraternité vécue. Parole véritable dont les repères évangéliques font pressentir la vérité du Dieu de Jésus, le Dieu qui est venu habiter parmi nous pour partager la douleur humaine et lui ouvrir une issue. « La mort de Jésus, écrit Michel Froidure, n'est pas le dernier mot de son histoire : sa mort est une victoire sur la peur de la mort... et surtout une victoire sur la mort elle-même, car elle s'achève dans la Résurrection. »
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‘Grow old with the Bible’ is not an autobiography, or a work of exegesis. It is the fruit of forty-five years of assiduous frequentation of the Bible by a man who has tried to put its teaching into practice, never avoiding the confrontation of acts and words. Line by line, the author reconsiders the texts of the Holy Scriptures, in a frank and natural manner: so that the representations of God, the practices of Jesus and the paths described by the Psalms take on new and unexpected meaning. The war years in Algeria; his engagement as a worker-priest and the crisis of 1954 which forced the best theologians into exile; his life in a poor quarter of Lille; his experience as a trainer with young Dominican brothers; the assassination of his friend Pierre Claverie in Oran in 1996 and an operation for cancer which brought him face-to-face with his own death: all of these experiences led the author to take stock of his engagement with God, with Jesus and his Gospel – good news for the poor, and of his spiritual life in the service of a universal fraternity strongly identified with life. Words of promise put to the test of today’s human experience and the words of a free man whose belonging to the Church is, above all, an extraordinary experience of fraternity. A testimony of truth, whose foundations in the Gospel offer us a foretaste of the truth of Jesus’ God, the God who came to live among us, to share human pain and offer a way to escape it. ‘The death of Christ,’ writes Michel Froidure, ‘is not the closing line of the story: his death is a victory over the fear of death... and above all a victory over death itself, because it ends in the Resurrection.’
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‘Grow old with the Bible’ is not an autobiography, or a work of exegesis. It is the fruit of forty-five years of assiduous frequentation of the Bible by a man who has tried to put its teaching into practice, never avoiding the confrontation of acts and words. Line by line, the author reconsiders the texts of the Holy Scriptures, in a frank and natural manner: so that the representations of God, the practices of Jesus and the paths described by the Psalms take on new and unexpected meaning. The war years in Algeria; his engagement as a worker-priest and the crisis of 1954 which forced the best theologians into exile; his life in a poor quarter of Lille; his experience as a trainer with young Dominican brothers; the assassination of his friend Pierre Claverie in Oran in 1996 and an operation for cancer which brought him face-to-face with his own death: all of these experiences led the author to take stock of his engagement with God, with Jesus and his Gospel – good news for the poor, and of his spiritual life in the service of a universal fraternity strongly identified with life. Words of promise put to the test of today’s human experience and the words of a free man whose belonging to the Church is, above all, an extraordinary experience of fraternity. A testimony of truth, whose foundations in the Gospel offer us a foretaste of the truth of Jesus’ God, the God who came to live among us, to share human pain and offer a way to escape it. ‘The death of Christ,’ writes Michel Froidure, ‘is not the closing line of the story: his death is a victory over the fear of death... and above all a victory over death itself, because it ends in the Resurrection.’
- Dimensions : 110x200x15
- ISBN : 9782204078580
- Poids : 270 grammes
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