Rector of St. Joseph' s University, Beyrouth, the author considers himself in the Near Eastern context of Lebanon, at the confines of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. This enables him to (a) evoke the cultural status of Revelation and (b) to reflect on his own acceptance in a university context which itself grows in a cultural pluralistic situation. Three unseparable characteristics are proper to Christian Revelation : Transcendence, Historicity and Universality. ; Salvation is infact not to be considered as any human culture ; it is realized in a sequence ofevents and destined to ail, open to ail cultures. The author goes on to show how a Catholic University, privileged place of dialogue between faith and cultures, is directly concerned by the cultural status of Revelation and must thus put into place its triple and undissociable components : a mission of critical analysis and of training to discernment in given political, economie, scientific, cultural and religious situations. ; Thus transcendence calls for a special attention to be paid to the intellectual factors, to the languages and to politics. In university teaching and research, the importance and the weight recognized to history will allow for a role of catharsis in favor of the faith so as to extract from it, beyond historical conditions, the permanent valued as well as the most fundamental meanings. Cultural pluralism should not cause unsurmountable problems to university teaching : it requires recognition of resembling elements and demands not to radicalize differences.