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Le « discours de Ratisbonne » : une bonne leçon

Michel Deneken
p. 493-510

Abstracts

The controversy that arose from the lecture pope Benedict on September 12th 2006 delivered at the University of Regensburg in Germany, concerned not the very content of his speech that is the necessity of a dialogue between faith and reason, but the example he chose to illustrate his conference. This example is a quotation taken from a dialogue between the byzantine Christian Emperor Manuel II with a Persian Muslim in the year 1391 and purposed to denounce the violence that a religion, in this particular case Islam, can generate when it is not conform to the reason. Unfortunately, the controversy which burst out about this example darkened the true subject of the conference. In this debate neither the elements of the context nor the dimension of the literary genre have been considered. This controversy revealed that pope Benedict 16th privileges the academic conference in his ministry of the Word. The exegetes of the papal word will have to take account this new reality.

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References

Bibliographical reference

Michel Deneken, “Le « discours de Ratisbonne » : une bonne leçon”Revue des sciences religieuses, 83/4 | 2009, 493-510.

Electronic reference

Michel Deneken, “Le « discours de Ratisbonne » : une bonne leçon”Revue des sciences religieuses [Online], 83/4 | 2009, Online since 15 November 2013, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rsr/440; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rsr.440

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Michel Deneken

Faculté de théologie catholique, Université de Strasbourg

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