Qu'êtes-vous allés voir au tombeau ?
de Guy Touton
Collection Épiphanie
210 pages - avril 2007
22,00€
« Ce livre propose une suite de méditations sur l'Homme enseveli, roulé dans les linges de la mort, Jésus de Nazareth, le ressuscité qui a bouleversé les témoins et tant inspiré les arts. Rendu muet sur la pierre sépulcrale, il est la Parole fondatrice de toute parole et des langages, le Corps des Écritures. Couché dans l'obscurité de la mort, il est la lumière qui nous ouvre les yeux, sur nous-mêmes, sur notre histoire violente, et sur le mystère de Dieu. Derrière la meule du tombeau, il est le Motif en qui nous sommes créés, Celui qui sait ce qu'il y a dans le cœur de l'homme, la Mesure de toute conscience, chrétienne ou pas, par son "j'ai eu faim, j'ai eu soif" universel, le Pardon en personne, la lumière de feu intransigeante devant laquelle il faudra se prononcer. Il est l'Amour insondable, incompréhensible, qui s'est manifesté au lavement des pieds, à la sainte Cène et sur la Croix. C'est la rumination du mystère du Christ qui me fait chaque jour pousser la porte des malades... J'ai écrit ce livre parce qu'en cet homme défiguré et lumineux, où "habite la plénitude de la divinité", toute souffrance est pétrie, incorporée, acheminée, transfigurée. Si Dieu est ainsi, on peut tomber à genoux ! »
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‘This volume offers a series of meditations on a Man entombed, swathed in a shroud, Jesus of Nazareth, who, resurrected, overwhelmed all witnesses and so greatly inspired the arts. Reduced to silence on the sepulchral slab, He is the founding Word of every word and every language, the Body of the Scriptures. Laid out in the obscurity of death, He is the light that opens our eyes, to see ourselves, our violent history and the mystery of God. Behind the millstone of the tomb, He is the Motif in which we are created, He who knows what lies in the heart of man, holds the Measure of every conscience, Christian or otherwise, through His universal “I was hungry, I was thirsty”, Pardon personified, the intransigent blaze before which we must stand up and be counted. He is that unfathomable and incomprehensible Love which manifested itself in the washing of feet, the Last Supper and on the Cross. It is the contemplation of Christ’s mystery that compels me, each day, to visit the sick… I have written this book because in that mutilated and radiant man, within whom “dwells Divinity in all its plenitude”, all suffering is modelled, incorporated, transported, transfigured. If this truly is God, we may fall upon our knees!”
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‘This volume offers a series of meditations on a Man entombed, swathed in a shroud, Jesus of Nazareth, who, resurrected, overwhelmed all witnesses and so greatly inspired the arts. Reduced to silence on the sepulchral slab, He is the founding Word of every word and every language, the Body of the Scriptures. Laid out in the obscurity of death, He is the light that opens our eyes, to see ourselves, our violent history and the mystery of God. Behind the millstone of the tomb, He is the Motif in which we are created, He who knows what lies in the heart of man, holds the Measure of every conscience, Christian or otherwise, through His universal “I was hungry, I was thirsty”, Pardon personified, the intransigent blaze before which we must stand up and be counted. He is that unfathomable and incomprehensible Love which manifested itself in the washing of feet, the Last Supper and on the Cross. It is the contemplation of Christ’s mystery that compels me, each day, to visit the sick… I have written this book because in that mutilated and radiant man, within whom “dwells Divinity in all its plenitude”, all suffering is modelled, incorporated, transported, transfigured. If this truly is God, we may fall upon our knees!”
- Dimensions : 145x215x13
- ISBN : 9782204083942
- Poids : 295 grammes