to encourage theology
I intend to publish here, ten times a year, a text theological or spiritual, of the minutes critical reading. I am a Protestant culture, but my question is about how Christianity can s'anticiper today. Such, perspective can not accommodate a purely religious or dogmatic attitude.
I draw inspiration unsurpassable source of biblical and I lean against the Christian tradition of which I am involved. At the same time, I saw blood in the incompleteness of the current reality and truth (which is different from doubt), with other religions and cultures, modernity and postmodernity.
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DAYS WELL SATISFIED A BERLIN
Between the two national days of protest against the reform of the pension, my wife and I were able to respond to an invitation to Berlin for four days.
We benefited from good weather in September and Franco-German cousins that have allowed us to explore the city without too much fatigue and with all skills desirable.
Berlin, completely rebuilt by the best contemporary architects, retains some monuments "kitsch" of the Wilhelmine era, but, overall, she lost the weight Germanic found in other Germanic cities. The graphs and tags adorn not only the remnants of the disaster "wall" which cut the city into two (following a path fractal wish) for twenty years, they are also found everywhere, as with us, and the subway is not cleaner in Paris. Of the many museums of the city, we visited the Pergamon Museum . German archaeologists have reconstructed from scattered remains, from the sands of the Middle East, sets the size of a building, such as the Pergamon Altar (Rev 1, 11, 2, 12), Gate market of Miletus (Acts 20, 15, 17, 2 Tim 4, 20), Gate Ichtar (Astarte) of Babylon, of which the biblical echo.
is a city with aerated many parks, planted trees are still young, with green spaces, tree-lined avenues, because of the Spree and the floodway, forests and lakes that surround it.
I had the impression of a life both active and relaxed. We are taking the advantage of living well. Restaurants are one third cheaper than here. In the district of Kreuzberg, where we were received, the ground floor fitted with gardens were often granted to " kindergartens; Turks were indeed present, there were some veiled women, but we did not encounter niqab. In various places, were the successors to the hippies who had established their headquarters.
Compared to the pomp of our Republic, installed in his palace, witnessing the insolence of nobility of the ancien regime, the German state is small. The residence of the President of the Republic, the castle of "Bellevue", differs French private little castle, current province, such as the one we saw last June, to La Bastide d'Armagnac, for example. Angela Merkel, Chancellor, simply lodge in town.
The memory of the Huguenots, who gave his rise in Berlin (at xviii century, Berlin was the third French) is maintained around the Französicherstrasse and Gendarmenmarkt (most beautiful place in the world to believe Goethe). Worship celebrated in the French Church (in German, at a time when we went there) followed the same pattern as ours. Although this was the second of the morning worship, the church (which must contain at least two hundred people) was nearly full (filled by distant descendants of Huguenots?). A viewing room of the church, where worship is also celebrated, with the name of Georges Casalis, formerly professor of our Protestant Institute of Theology. As chaplain of the French forces in Berlin, he scored his strong personality and hard years of Protestantism in Berlin of the immediate postwar period. This is the Huguenot refugees that Europe owes its largest University Hospital: Hospital "Charity." The restaurant located in the basement name: " Refugium ', a nod extra! "The Revocation of Nantes el'Édit is the greatest catastrophe that France has ever known" (Philippe Seguin).
French Protestants do they remember their history? When it happens to speak, if I do not meet chauvinism Huguenot lined fundamentalism that has very Christian thing, the more often it is a respectful silence. Protestants are not interested today. This is not to base our faith on our history, to remove a vanity, to what passed through ritualized celebrations and commemorations, but to discover that history and to have this memory in gratitude . A social group that forgets its history, or puts in parentheses, fishing heavily by ingratitude towards women and men who have allowed their faith exist today, the price of their comfort, their future and their children, often paying with their lives. The result of this ingratitude may mean that Protestantism today will have no future, even in the minds of Protestants tomorrow. A better understanding of our past French Protestant would help strengthen our presence in today's society.
What made us the most is how Berlin assumes its responsibility in the memory of the persecution Jews. The synagogue was completely rebuilt exactly, and on the doorstep of the houses where they lived, cobblestones covered with copper plates recall the names of Jewish families deported (sometimes more for the same building). The monument to the extermination of the Jews did not bear the name of "Denkmal" (Monument of Remembrance), but "Mahnmal (monument which should serve as a warning). In its architectural design which covers the area of a large square, is a successful example of "contemporary sculpture", but, more importantly, not a monument that can look, we contemplate so satisfied, we are led to enter in, he asks us, forcing us to walk, remember to try to understand.
Are we better? For this, we should at least that we spend in Paris a beautiful surface and suggestive architecture as for keep alive the consciousness of our fellow citizens from the point of the African slave trade including a number of good homes Protestant (between Bordeaux others) have benefited. What word do we have of Rome heard about persecutions of the Inquisition? For St. Barthelemy, Paris gets away with a brief mention on the base of the statue of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny. Our city continues to shine through Notre Dame des Victoires, a square, a street and even a synagogue to commemorate the Victory and even celebrate the victories of Louis XIII on Protestants (La Rochelle).
Berlin is now probably the only city in the world and make repentance of its past. Other German cities seem equally responsible: Munich, Nuremberg (or even Vienna, Austria). Are they too brief? At home, royal absolutism, the revolutionary Terror, the Napoleonic wars, the subject of celebrations that ignore any downside.
one thing I regret is that the monument on the deportation of the Jews is called "Holocaust Mahnmal " in the Hebrew Bible, The word translated as "holocaust" ( HrôLâH : in integer) is a complete sacrifice asked by the Lord . Jews prefer to speak of the Shoah (annihilation) and is better named (except when we use language-conformism by what? - Anglo-Saxon spelling of the Holocaust!).
Jacques Gruber
Other texts available via email: Evidence; elections or plebiscites; Where do we stand with the truth? ; Protestants, the souk, Jews and Christians, the divergence of monotheism (first and second parts) The Don and attention; Holy Spirit, who are you, what are you doing? ; Send Church (s) What is believed Jesus entering Jerusalem; Messages for highlights of the year; Am I a creationist? ; Confession of Faith, Evangelism, Forgiveness, The Shipyard, Grace; Easter ; A vision for the world; Resources; The roadmap of Jesus, Open Letter to my Catholic friends, the Merciful; Led by the Spirit; Contemporaries distant (Benedict XVI and I) For entry; The Calvin trickery, Rome and Canterbury; Woes; Woes (continued) Easter 2010; Remember and learn, Buddha or Jesus, Buddhism The narrow gate.
the same author: Hear the Word. The inner witness of the Holy Esprit , Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2005,
« Vous serez mes témoins ». Pour un temps de confusion et de mutations , Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2009.
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