Les pauvres sont l'Église
Collection L'Histoire à vif
304 pages - avril 2011
22,00€
« Rencontrer Joseph Wresinski a changé ma vie », écrit Charles Courtney, spécialiste des questions religieuses. Des milliers de personnes expriment aujourd'hui encore cette émotion parmi celles et ceux qui ont croisé — et parfois poursuivi, pas à pas — la route du fondateur d'ATD Quart Monde. Depuis son enfance au milieu des pauvres, une conviction habite le père Joseph Wresinski : l'Église, communion des fidèles autour du Christ est, par nature, axée sur les plus misérables. Quand l'homme le plus méprisé est oublié, l'humanité est cassée, l'Église est absente et le Christ bafoué. Ce livre d'entretiens réalisés par Gilles Anouil, à l'époque journaliste au groupe « Réalités », montre bien comment le message et l'action du père Joseph sont issus de sa vie personnelle et de sa vocation religieuse. « Je veux rendre les pauvres à l'Église et l'Église aux pauvres. » Écoutons Michel Serres : « Je n'ai pas connu le père Joseph, mais j'ai lu avec beaucoup d'attention ses écrits et j'ai été frappé, en tant que philosophe, par la rigueur de sa pensée. Quand on est très loin de ce qui touche à la misère, on attend un discours presque convenu, celui que, dans les journaux, on appelle caritatif. Eh bien, pas du tout ! J'ai trouvé dans ses textes une pensée qui interrogeait, avec une vivacité surprenante et une force extraordinaire, l'histoire, les sciences humaines, la sociologie, l'économie, la politique, la culture, et qui les interrogeait de telle façon que je conseille désormais à mes étudiants de lire les écrits du père Joseph. » Pour sa part, dans le prologue à l'édition en langue anglaise de « Les Pauvres sont l'Église », le professeur de philosophie de la religion cité plus haut, Charles Courtney observe : « Si vous décidez de lire ce livre, attendez-vous à en sortir transformé. » « Là où des hommes sont condamnés à vivre dans la misère, les Droits de l'homme sont violés. S'unir pour les faire respecter est un devoir sacré. » [Père Joseph Wresinski — Phrase gravée sur le Parvis des Droits de l'homme au Trocadéro, le 17 octobre 1987]
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“Meeting Joseph Wresinski changed my life,” writes Charles Courtney, a specialist of religious questions. Thousands of people who met him still express that emotion today. Some of them followed, step by step, the way of the founder of International Movement ATD Quart Monde. Since he was a child among the poor, Father Joseph Wresinski had one conviction: that the Church, the communion of the faithful around Christ, is, by its very nature, in line with the most wretched among us. When the most despised man is forgotten, humanity is broken, the Church is absent and Christ is mocked. This book of interviews by Gilles Anouil, who was then a journalist working with the ‘Réalités’ group, shows how the message and actions of Father Joseph emanated from his personal life and religious vocation. “I want to bring the poor back to the Church and Church back to the poor.” This is what Michel Serres has to say: “I didn’t meet Father Joseph, but I read his writings attentively and I was struck, as a philosopher, by the rigour of his thinking. When one is very far from those in poverty, one expects an almost conventional discourse, what they call charitable in the newspapers. Well I was wrong! I found in his texts a mind that asked questions, with a surprising vivacity and extraordinary force, about history, the humanities, sociology, economy, politics, culture, and asked them in such a way that I now advise my students to read the writings of Father Joseph.” In the prologue to the English edition of “Les Pauvres sont l'Église” Charles Courtney, Professor of the philosophy of religion who is quoted above, writes: “If you decide to read this book, you can expect to be transformed by it.” “Where men are condemned to live in misery, Human rights are violated. To unite to make sure they are respected is a sacred duty.” [Father Joseph Wresinski — This sentence was engraved on the stone of the Parvis des Droits de l'homme at the Trocadéro, Paris on October 17, 1987]
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“Meeting Joseph Wresinski changed my life,” writes Charles Courtney, a specialist of religious questions. Thousands of people who met him still express that emotion today. Some of them followed, step by step, the way of the founder of International Movement ATD Quart Monde. Since he was a child among the poor, Father Joseph Wresinski had one conviction: that the Church, the communion of the faithful around Christ, is, by its very nature, in line with the most wretched among us. When the most despised man is forgotten, humanity is broken, the Church is absent and Christ is mocked. This book of interviews by Gilles Anouil, who was then a journalist working with the ‘Réalités’ group, shows how the message and actions of Father Joseph emanated from his personal life and religious vocation. “I want to bring the poor back to the Church and Church back to the poor.” This is what Michel Serres has to say: “I didn’t meet Father Joseph, but I read his writings attentively and I was struck, as a philosopher, by the rigour of his thinking. When one is very far from those in poverty, one expects an almost conventional discourse, what they call charitable in the newspapers. Well I was wrong! I found in his texts a mind that asked questions, with a surprising vivacity and extraordinary force, about history, the humanities, sociology, economy, politics, culture, and asked them in such a way that I now advise my students to read the writings of Father Joseph.” In the prologue to the English edition of “Les Pauvres sont l'Église” Charles Courtney, Professor of the philosophy of religion who is quoted above, writes: “If you decide to read this book, you can expect to be transformed by it.” “Where men are condemned to live in misery, Human rights are violated. To unite to make sure they are respected is a sacred duty.” [Father Joseph Wresinski — This sentence was engraved on the stone of the Parvis des Droits de l'homme at the Trocadéro, Paris on October 17, 1987]
- Dimensions : 135x215x22
- ISBN : 9782204079815
- Poids : 400 grammes
Avec la collaboration de : Gilles Anouil
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