
La resignation dans la culture catholique (1870-1945)
Jean-François Galinier-Pallerola - Collection Histoire
Résumé
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In the 19th and 20th centuries, among the attacks atheists made on religion was the accusation that it anesthetized feelings of revolt in the poorer classes, oppressed by the State and the ruling classes, by preaching patience here on earth and promising rewards in heaven. Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, each in his turn, attacked religion and the happiness it promised, born 'of the destruction of passion and the silence of the will'. Also they accused it of propagating a morbid love of suffering, an ethic founded on guilt, 'an ecstasy of moral asceticism' through which 'people would constantly impose upon themselves new renunciations of their urges' resulting in the deprecation of the value of life and the image of the real world. These attacks were principally aimed at Christianity. Which begs a question: are there elements in the teaching of the Church - not only of the magisterium, but of all Catholics - which could justify or at least explain in part the unanimity of these accusations? All of them criticize the notion of resignation. The Christian would appear to advocate submission and resignation to suffering and the renunciation of passions - or of neuroses - in the hope of the eternal salvation this sacrifice would help to obtain. In the middle of the 20th century, Teilhard de Chardin acknowledged Marx's critique: 'Christian resignation is sincerely considered and blamed by many honest people as being one of the most dangerously soporific elements of the"opium of religion". After the repulsion of the Earth, there is no other attitude that the Gospels have been more acrimoniously blamed for spreading than passivity in the face of Evil.' It would be impossible to simply dismiss the notion of resignation, and not to ask ourselves if it has been over or badly taught and put into practice. In this detailed and forceful study, Jean-François Galinier-Pallerola treats the question and tries to respond: is resignation at the heart of Christianity, because the Crucified Christ invites his disciples to take up their crosses and enter into glory with him? Or is this an accidental and outdated deviation of Catholicism which we have opportunely cast off during the last fifty years?"
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Jean-François Galinier-Pallerola |
Collection | Histoire |
Parution | 06/09/2007 |
Nb. de pages | 497 |
Format | 14.5 x 23.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 725g |
EAN13 | 9782204082853 |
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