Whelan, Ruth
(2014)
Parle-moi, car j’ai peur : parole et confiance dans l’Histoire des Souffrances d’Élie Neau, galérien protestant.
In:
Risquer la confiance.
Éditions Aphil-Presses universitaires suisses, Neuchâtel, pp. 59-73.
ISBN 9782889300129
Abstract
The word confiance, as the French Protestant Elie Neau uses it in his
letters, prayers and hymns written in captivity, is linked to notions of faith and trust
in God, with whom Neau enjoys an I~Thou relationship that is the source of his
confidence (assurance), in the contemporary sense of the word, and the site where
his selfhood is affirmed and legitimated. This paper studies the way this relationship
is mediated by Scripture experienced as Word, but moves into mystical transport
that is not just union but also ineffable fusion with the divine; furthermore, it
also outlines how Neau's resistance to the forces that oppressed him was fed by a
meditation on the Passion of Christ that ironically owed much to Catholic popular
devotion of the time.
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