Title: L'interprétation de la Bible chez Spinoza. Ses présupposés philosophiques
Abstract: In the Une of Bl. Barret-Kriegel, La défaite de l'érudition, the author attempts to clarify the originality of Spinoza' s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and to understand the presuppositions of the historical and critical method proposed by the philosopher. The principles and the limits of this method are expouned in chapter VII of the Treatise. This chapter is linked to the preceding ones where the status of biblical revelation and the specificity of two fields, faith and philosophy, are being determined. This solidarity takes on the shape of a circle between the method and the results : the first one taking it for granted that the essence of Revelation be known, whereas the discovery of the core of the Scriptures necessitates recourse to the method. At the same time, this method is defined as a quest of the truth of the texts without prejudging the truth of things. The reading of the Bible thus marks various breaking points with the history of Exegesis : it refuses to take for granted the unity of the text, unity accepted as obvious until then. It rejects all spiritual meaning and thus breaks the pact between Theology and Exegesis. It disqualifies Sacred History which pretends to be oriented towards a full revelation manifested in Jesus-Christ. Finally it neglects the strictly scriptural condition of Revelation to consider exclusively the archeology of the texts.
Publication Year: 1990
Publication Date: 1990-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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