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Comment Jésus est devenu Dieu
« Pour vous qui suis-je ? » Cette interrogation de Jésus à ses disciples n a rien perdu de sa force. Les Evangiles laissent planer un doute sur l identité de cet homme hors du commun : est-il un prophète ? le Messie attendu par les juifs ? le Fils de Dieu ?
De nos jours, le christianisme est pourtant la seule religion qui affirme que son fondateur est à la fois homme et Dieu. Comment les chrétiens des premiers siècles ont-ils progressivement été amenés à affirmer la divinité de Jésus alors que lui-même ne s est jamais identifié à Dieu ?
Comment, à l issue de débats passionnés, furent élaborés les dogmes de la Sainte Trinité et de l Incarnation ?
Quels autres regards ont été rejetés comme « hérétiques » lors de ces virulentes joutes théologiques qui ont coûté la vie à certains ?
Quel a été le rôle du pouvoir politique dans l élaboration du credo chrétien à partir du IVe siècle et de la conversion de l empereur Constantin ?
Ecrit comme un récit, cet ouvrage captivant permet de comprendre la naissance du christianisme ainsi que les fondements de la foi chrétienne et pose avec acuité la question centrale : qui est Jésus ?
De nos jours, le christianisme est pourtant la seule religion qui affirme que son fondateur est à la fois homme et Dieu. Comment les chrétiens des premiers siècles ont-ils progressivement été amenés à affirmer la divinité de Jésus alors que lui-même ne s est jamais identifié à Dieu ?
Comment, à l issue de débats passionnés, furent élaborés les dogmes de la Sainte Trinité et de l Incarnation ?
Quels autres regards ont été rejetés comme « hérétiques » lors de ces virulentes joutes théologiques qui ont coûté la vie à certains ?
Quel a été le rôle du pouvoir politique dans l élaboration du credo chrétien à partir du IVe siècle et de la conversion de l empereur Constantin ?
Ecrit comme un récit, cet ouvrage captivant permet de comprendre la naissance du christianisme ainsi que les fondements de la foi chrétienne et pose avec acuité la question centrale : qui est Jésus ?
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About the author
Frédéric Lenoir
137 books456 followers3 June 1962. Birth in Madagascar.
1964. His parents return to France and move to the country to raise their four children, born in Morocco and Madagascar.
1970-1979. He moves to Paris. An unruly student, he is particularly ill-disposed to doing schoolwork and is sent to three different lycées (Victor Duruy, Buffon, Camille Sée). As a teenager he reads Hesse and Dostoyevsky, kindling his interest in existential questions. At 15 he develops a passion for philosophy after reading Plato’s Dialogues, and in astrology from reading books by André Barbault.
1980-1985. The Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung has a profound effect on his intellectual direction, triggering a desire to study mankind’s great myths and religions. After an early fascination with Asian spirituality, in particular Tibetan Buddhism, discovered through the work of Chogyam Trungpa, he develops an interest in the Kabbalah and begins taking classes in the symbolism of Hebrew letters. He has no particular interest in studying Christianity, however. His Catholic upbringing, although very liberal, had focused too much on dogma and morality. Then, at 19, he reads the Gospels for the first time, and is amazed by them. He begins studying philosophy at the University of Fribourg, in Switzerland, with his childhood friend Emmanuel Rouvillois, who later becomes a monk by the name of Brother Samuel; there, he meets two crucial and outstanding professors: the Dominican philosopher Marie-Dominique Philippe (with whom he writes a book of interviews, Les trois sagesses, in 1994) and the philosopher and Talmud scholar Emmanuel Lévinas who, as a testament, leaves him a fine text on ethics in his book Le Temps de la responsabilité (1991). Parallel to his philosophy studies, he goes on a personal spiritual quest that leads him to spend several months in Israel and India, as well as in Christian hermitages and monasteries in France.
1986. As editor of the religion department at Editions Fayard, he publishes several books examining philosophical and spiritual themes.
1991. He resigns from his position as editor to devote more time to academic research and writing, and begins work on a doctoral thesis on Buddhism in the West at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
1992. Passionate about ecological issues, he helps found the association ‘‘Environnement sans frontières.’’ In 2003 he publishes a book of interviews with his friend Hubert Reeves, who sounds the alarm on the risks threatening the planet. (Mal de Terre).
1994. He is appointed associate researcher at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Following in the footsteps of Edgar Morin, one of his intellectual mentors, he takes on the issue of religion in a multi-disciplinary approach combining philosophy, sociology and history.
1997. He writes l’Encyclopédie des religions, conceived and compiled with Ysé Tardan-Masquelier, (2500 pages, 2 volumes, 150 collaborators).
1996-2000. He writes for L’Express on a regular basis.
1998. He writes and directs an international study about sects for television with Lolande Cadrin-Rossignol. The documentary series, entitled ‘‘Sectes, mensonges et idéaux’’ (‘‘Sects, Lies and Ideals’’), is broadcast in France on the Cinquième channel and in numerous other countries. He also co-writes a documentary about the Dalai Lama that is broadcast on Canal +, and a series of three 52’ episodes on the Cinquième channel entitled ‘‘Dieu a changé d’adresse’’ (‘’God has changed his address’’).
1998-2005. He writes a number of books − some alone, others with Catherine David and Jean-Philippe de Tonnac − of interviews with such diverse figures as Abbé Pierre, Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould, Jean Vanier, Hubert Reeves and Jean-Claude Carrière.
1964. His parents return to France and move to the country to raise their four children, born in Morocco and Madagascar.
1970-1979. He moves to Paris. An unruly student, he is particularly ill-disposed to doing schoolwork and is sent to three different lycées (Victor Duruy, Buffon, Camille Sée). As a teenager he reads Hesse and Dostoyevsky, kindling his interest in existential questions. At 15 he develops a passion for philosophy after reading Plato’s Dialogues, and in astrology from reading books by André Barbault.
1980-1985. The Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung has a profound effect on his intellectual direction, triggering a desire to study mankind’s great myths and religions. After an early fascination with Asian spirituality, in particular Tibetan Buddhism, discovered through the work of Chogyam Trungpa, he develops an interest in the Kabbalah and begins taking classes in the symbolism of Hebrew letters. He has no particular interest in studying Christianity, however. His Catholic upbringing, although very liberal, had focused too much on dogma and morality. Then, at 19, he reads the Gospels for the first time, and is amazed by them. He begins studying philosophy at the University of Fribourg, in Switzerland, with his childhood friend Emmanuel Rouvillois, who later becomes a monk by the name of Brother Samuel; there, he meets two crucial and outstanding professors: the Dominican philosopher Marie-Dominique Philippe (with whom he writes a book of interviews, Les trois sagesses, in 1994) and the philosopher and Talmud scholar Emmanuel Lévinas who, as a testament, leaves him a fine text on ethics in his book Le Temps de la responsabilité (1991). Parallel to his philosophy studies, he goes on a personal spiritual quest that leads him to spend several months in Israel and India, as well as in Christian hermitages and monasteries in France.
1986. As editor of the religion department at Editions Fayard, he publishes several books examining philosophical and spiritual themes.
1991. He resigns from his position as editor to devote more time to academic research and writing, and begins work on a doctoral thesis on Buddhism in the West at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
1992. Passionate about ecological issues, he helps found the association ‘‘Environnement sans frontières.’’ In 2003 he publishes a book of interviews with his friend Hubert Reeves, who sounds the alarm on the risks threatening the planet. (Mal de Terre).
1994. He is appointed associate researcher at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Following in the footsteps of Edgar Morin, one of his intellectual mentors, he takes on the issue of religion in a multi-disciplinary approach combining philosophy, sociology and history.
1997. He writes l’Encyclopédie des religions, conceived and compiled with Ysé Tardan-Masquelier, (2500 pages, 2 volumes, 150 collaborators).
1996-2000. He writes for L’Express on a regular basis.
1998. He writes and directs an international study about sects for television with Lolande Cadrin-Rossignol. The documentary series, entitled ‘‘Sectes, mensonges et idéaux’’ (‘‘Sects, Lies and Ideals’’), is broadcast in France on the Cinquième channel and in numerous other countries. He also co-writes a documentary about the Dalai Lama that is broadcast on Canal +, and a series of three 52’ episodes on the Cinquième channel entitled ‘‘Dieu a changé d’adresse’’ (‘’God has changed his address’’).
1998-2005. He writes a number of books − some alone, others with Catherine David and Jean-Philippe de Tonnac − of interviews with such diverse figures as Abbé Pierre, Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould, Jean Vanier, Hubert Reeves and Jean-Claude Carrière.
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December 17, 2018
Rien à voir avec mes objectifs de lecture de l'année, mais ce livre m'a sauté aux yeux depuis la bibliothèque des grands-parents de mon partenaire. Il faut dire que mon éducation religieuse s'est soldée par une bonne dose de scepticisme, mais toujours autant de curiosité intellectuelle.
J'aime que Lenoir se repose sur des faits historiques, sur des preuves écrites et sur une comparaison précise des discours. J'en ai appris davantage sur l'établissement de la chrétienté comme religion majeure, le statut de "mère de Dieu" de Marie et bien sûr, l'identité de Jésus pour les chrétiens.
Recommandable à toute personne, croyante ou non, qui souhaite approfondir davantage sa connaissance de la religion au plus grand nombre d'adhérents.
J'aime que Lenoir se repose sur des faits historiques, sur des preuves écrites et sur une comparaison précise des discours. J'en ai appris davantage sur l'établissement de la chrétienté comme religion majeure, le statut de "mère de Dieu" de Marie et bien sûr, l'identité de Jésus pour les chrétiens.
Recommandable à toute personne, croyante ou non, qui souhaite approfondir davantage sa connaissance de la religion au plus grand nombre d'adhérents.
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December 13, 2023Title is accurate. An intelligent analysis of the godhood of Jesus, starting from his own words as quoted in the gospels and flowing through the various factions, councils, synodes and heresies of the first five centuries that culminated in a unified trinitary theology, still officially adhered to by the majority of Christian denominations today. The book ends with personal reflections on how many of the modern, personal interpretations of Jesus would qualify as heresies under this doctrine.
December 22, 2023
Si tous les livres traitant la religion seraient écrits dans cet esprit, alors tous les guerres qui ont utilisé comme excuse la religion seraient exposées.
La religion est politique. La spiritualité aide à révéler le meilleur de chacun.
Cette histoire tellement nécessaire, qui nous porte à côté de Jesus depuis les apôtres jusqu’au V-eme siècle, est écrite par un philosophe très proche d’une spiritualité chrétienne. Je le recommande pour se protéger de ceux qui prennent la Bible à la main pour se montrer défenseurs de quoi que ce soit. Ça montre tellement clairement combien la politique a nuit la spiritualité en l’appelant religion.
La religion est politique. La spiritualité aide à révéler le meilleur de chacun.
Cette histoire tellement nécessaire, qui nous porte à côté de Jesus depuis les apôtres jusqu’au V-eme siècle, est écrite par un philosophe très proche d’une spiritualité chrétienne. Je le recommande pour se protéger de ceux qui prennent la Bible à la main pour se montrer défenseurs de quoi que ce soit. Ça montre tellement clairement combien la politique a nuit la spiritualité en l’appelant religion.
May 6, 2020
J'ai vraiment aimé apprendre sur la perception du monde au commencement du christianisme, la comparaison des écrits religieux et des écrits historique mais la derniere partie sur les conciles m'a semblé un peu longue.
November 26, 2021
Very informative.
September 18, 2022
Un peu fastidieux mais très éclairant sur le construction historique de la figure christique.
March 7, 2025
Retour aux sources pour chaque chrétien. “Dieu est amour” 🙏
October 5, 2016
le questionnement de l'identité de Jésus au travers les évangiles, et autres écrits, les données historiques; puis les 4 premiers siècles de la chrétienté, ses soubresauts, ses disputes et questionnements plus ou moins charitables, sur la divinité de Jésus et l'orthodoxie telle qu'elle est aujourd'hui.
Très clair et avec un message universel en guise de conclusion
Très clair et avec un message universel en guise de conclusion
January 1, 2017
If you are interested in the history of how the Christian faith developed over the centuries especially until the fourth century this book is great. It is written by a Christian and does not criticize but helps to understand the structure of the Christian faith.
However, I am very critical and I feel this story as if: we decided that a great god is for example Dart Vader and we build a whole story about him. As he was the chosen and was lost to be rescued then by his son and leave the dark side. Unfortunately not having faith, this is how the construction of the man Jesus is seen, because the book deals with points such as:
- Decide on the divinity of Jesus.
- See how the father was consubstantial.
- The virginal conception of Jesus.
- Mary as mother of god.
And many issues as well. But all these were discussed and decided by men. And I do not believe them.
However, I am very critical and I feel this story as if: we decided that a great god is for example Dart Vader and we build a whole story about him. As he was the chosen and was lost to be rescued then by his son and leave the dark side. Unfortunately not having faith, this is how the construction of the man Jesus is seen, because the book deals with points such as:
- Decide on the divinity of Jesus.
- See how the father was consubstantial.
- The virginal conception of Jesus.
- Mary as mother of god.
And many issues as well. But all these were discussed and decided by men. And I do not believe them.
March 19, 2016
Knjiga pokušava da opiše vreme kada se utvrđivala Hrišćanska dogma. Koji pogledi su odbačeni kao jeretički, i šta je sve stvaralo razdor i neslaganje unutar Hrišćanskih frakcija tog vremena. Konstantna nedoumica da li je Isus bio prorok, sin Božji, ili sam Bog. Ova knjiga će vam doneti jasniju sliku o počecima Hrišćanske Crkve.
February 11, 2011
super; à lire; on peut etre chretien sans etre catholique
March 15, 2014
Through this book, You will find an other jesus.
March 29, 2015
interessant maar matig geschreven / vertaald
July 12, 2015
Interesting history of theological debates in the first centuries after Jesus life. Liked the epilogue.
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