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On the Validity of Biblical Exegesis from a Believer's Perspective. Two Considerations or Two Analogies. In a personal analysis, the author begins by underlining within the catholic confessional position, to which he belongs, the importance of prayer on a practical level. Indeed, prayer presupposes the faith-based conviction of a proportional relationship between human speech and divine listening. This proportional relationship is also implicite in the notion of prophetic speech because the prophets express divine words in a human, concrete and historical language, and the Bible is the written document of these words. This proportion is analogous to the proportion between human words translated from one language to another. Interpreting a translation involves understanding the translated speech and, inseparably, the original speech in its native language, which we ignore since we can resort to its translation. We therefore require a two-fold hermeneutics : that of the translated speech that we directly hear, and that of the original speech implicite in the translated speech but that we indirectly hear.

Light as an Image of God and as a Name of Man in Gregory of Nazianzus
In the second half of the IVth century, Gregory of Nazianzus, later called « the Theologian », is one of the Greek Fathers whose works are abundantly infused with the theme of light. A preferred term for expressing divinity, light can make the connection between a positive formulation of God (« God is light ») and a vision that is its « negative » counterpoint (God dazzles) : apophatic and cataphatic theologies are one and the same theology. In the anthropological field, the Incarnation of the Son, « Light of Light », gives a new meaning to a word which in Greek means « man » : the word phôs. By a kind of « photographic » revelation, Man finds in God his own identity as well as the path toward his deification.

Gerard Manley Hopkins : What Theology are we Reading in his Works ?
The jesuit poet Gerard Hopkins produced a remarkable body of work that came to light posthumously. The Theology it reveals is that of his time : Providence, expiation, the apology of suffering, etc. However, a careful and original examination of his poetics point to other orientations that merit considerable attention.