Sacrée Parole ! Exégèse, Ecriture sainte et Parole de Dieu d’après Dominique Grima et Armand de Belvézer, O. P

Abstract

Sacred Word ! Exegesis, Holy Scripture and Word of God, according to Dominique Grima and Armand de Belvézer, O. P. Before being a religion of the Book, Christianity is a religion of the Word, uttered, heard, memorised, passed on, interpreted. The Word of God, Holy Scripture and the word of the preaching clerics when they comment on the Bible, are three instances of the same schema of the « Sacred Word » which guarantees the social cohesion of medieval Christianity. The biblical Principium and the commentary on the preface Frater Ambrosius by Dominique Grima, the lectures or « collations » De Verbo Domini and De Scriptura sacra of Armand de Belvézer allow the reconstruction of a Christian cycle of the Word, whose dynamics are based a priori on three fundamentals : a logical « leap », which consists of imagining God as a speaking thought (Word or Logos), a prophetic « leap » which considers God as the author of some human words, and an hermeneutic « leap ». This latter leads to acceptance of a corpus of texts as part of the Canon, the Bible, by projecting onto its narrated history the faith-given meaning developed through the consensus of Churches. All the theological justifications of ecclesiastical practice are based on this intellectual construction which considers as sacred some elements of the human word by attributing to them a transcendent origin and divine meaning and power.