Pierre de Bérulle , apôtre du verbe incarné
de Rémi Lescot
Collection Épiphanie
160 pages - févr. 2013
13,20€
On a souvent présenté Pierre de Bérulle comme un auteur difficile d’accès. Première œuvre spirituelle en français, avec celle de François de Sales, elle se situe avant « Le Cid » de Corneille et le bel équilibre de la langue classique. Pourtant, il y a chez lui une telle passion de l’homme et de Dieu, de la culture littéraire et scientifique de son époque, qu’éclate, dans certaines pages, un véritable génie du verbe qui annonce Pascal. C’est que Pierre de Bérulle tente de pénétrer le mystère de la rencontre de l’humain et du divin, en Marie, puis en ce petit d’homme, Jésus de Nazareth ; alors les définitions de la théologie éclatent sous sa plume, dans une heureuse confrontation des extrêmes, dans le choc de l’infiniment grand et de l’infiniment petit, de la fragilité et de la toute-puissance. Converti par les carmélites, filles de sainte Thérèse d’Avila qu’il a fait venir d’Espagne pour établir le Carmel en France, le fondateur de l’Oratoire va réussir à illustrer sa méditation avec la même poésie qui habite les plus belles pages des prophètes et des Pères de l’Église dont il se nourrit chaque jour. Pierre de Bérulle est vraiment l’Apôtre du Verbe incarné, titre que lui donnait le pape Urbain VIII.
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Pierre de Bérulle has often been presented as a ‘difficult’ author. The first spiritual work in French, along with that of François de Sales, it appeared before Corneille’s ‘Le Cid’ and the elegant phrasing of classicism. However, there is in de Bérulle’s writing such a passion for man and God, and for the literary and scientific culture of his day, that certain pages blaze with a literary genius that heralds Pascal. As he attempts to penetrate the mystery of that blend of human and divine, first in Mary then her child, Jesus of Nazareth, definitions of theology spring from his quill, delightfully contrasting extremes such as the infinitely great and the infinitesimally small, frailty and the all-powerful. The French Oratory’s founder, who was converted by the Carmelites, the daughters of Saint Teresa of Avila whom he brought from Spain to establish the Carmelite Order of nuns in France, succeeded in describing his meditations with the same grace and poetry that inhabits the finest pages by the prophets and the Fathers of the Church. Pierre de Bérulle is truly the Apostle of the Incarnate Word, a title bestowed upon him by Pope Urban VIII.
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Pierre de Bérulle has often been presented as a ‘difficult’ author. The first spiritual work in French, along with that of François de Sales, it appeared before Corneille’s ‘Le Cid’ and the elegant phrasing of classicism. However, there is in de Bérulle’s writing such a passion for man and God, and for the literary and scientific culture of his day, that certain pages blaze with a literary genius that heralds Pascal. As he attempts to penetrate the mystery of that blend of human and divine, first in Mary then her child, Jesus of Nazareth, definitions of theology spring from his quill, delightfully contrasting extremes such as the infinitely great and the infinitesimally small, frailty and the all-powerful. The French Oratory’s founder, who was converted by the Carmelites, the daughters of Saint Teresa of Avila whom he brought from Spain to establish the Carmelite Order of nuns in France, succeeded in describing his meditations with the same grace and poetry that inhabits the finest pages by the prophets and the Fathers of the Church. Pierre de Bérulle is truly the Apostle of the Incarnate Word, a title bestowed upon him by Pope Urban VIII.
- Dimensions : 135x195x12
- ISBN : 9782204099905
- Poids : 200 grammes
Avec la collaboration de : Jean Dujardin