
Résumé
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Catholicism is a changing and complex reality. How can we interpret what is happening today in Western Europe? This book proposes a working hypothesis: it refers to three models, three styles, three dominant consistent patterns. The first model is placed under the sign of the Market. In a pluralistic society, each person can proclaim his or her conception of the world, and the most convincing 'creates' the truth. This deinstitutionalized and individualistic Catholicism is manifest in the survival of rites of passage and the affirmation of 'Christian values'. The second model, placed under the sign of the Temple, puts the accent on hierarchical and juridical powers: rigid and authoritarian, it claims to hold the truth and must proclaim it, as the modern world drifts off in all directions... This model has become unacceptable to the majority of our contemporaries. Two things call for a third model: fidelity to Jesus and his cause and the credibility of Catholicism. The third model, under the sign of the Gospel, is determined by careful observation of the founding testimony in its specific coherence. Isn't the most urgent thing to live in keeping with what the Gospel proclaims? Wouldn't Catholicism, resourced in this way, respond to the man of today's deepest desires? Catholicism, and each person who adheres to it, is torn between these three models. To choose one's spiritual path freely and live in personal sincerity to be able to lean on a strong identity, certitudes and clear structures to plunge one's roots into the subversive Tradition of Jesus and begin to experiment the utopia of the Kingdom in a fraternal community: these three desires coexist within all of us. Yet there can be no future for Catholicism without the courage to draw near the founding experience.
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Jacques Vermeylen |
Collection | Théologies |
Parution | 23/04/2010 |
Format | 14.5 x 23.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 366g |
EAN13 | 9782204091251 |
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