Vieillir avec la bible - quarante-cing ans de verification evangelique
Michel froidure
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‘Grow old with the Bible' is not an autobiography, or a work of exegesis. It is the fruit of forty-five years of assiduous frequentation of the Bible by a man who has tried to put its teaching into practice, never avoiding the confrontation of acts and words. Line by line, the author reconsiders the texts of the Holy Scriptures, in a frank and natural manner: so that the representations of God, the practices of Jesus and the paths described by the Psalms take on new and unexpected meaning. The war years in Algeria his engagement as a worker-priest and the crisis of 1954 which forced the best theologians into exile his life in a poor quarter of Lille his experience as a trainer with young Dominican brothers the assassination of his friend Pierre Claverie in Oran in 1996 and an operation for cancer which brought him face-to-face with his own death: all of these experiences led the author to take stock of his engagement with God, with Jesus and his Gospel - good news for the poor, and of his spiritual life in the service of a universal fraternity strongly identified with life. Words of promise put to the test of today's human experience and the words of a free man whose belonging to the Church is, above all, an extraordinary experience of fraternity. A testimony of truth, whose foundations in the Gospel offer us a foretaste of the truth of Jesus' God, the God who came to live among us, to share human pain and offer a way to escape it. ‘The death of Christ,' writes Michel Froidure, ‘is not the closing line of the story: his death is a victory over the fear of death... and above all a victory over death itself, because it ends in the Resurrection.'