Papers by Erminio Antonello
The Constitutions establish the boundaries within which the Vincentian missionary is urged to liv... more The Constitutions establish the boundaries within which the Vincentian missionary is urged to live his spiritual life. In rereading them twenty years after they were written, one gets the impression of a painter who continues to retrace his brush strokes in order to refine the figure that he is painting. The painting sketched by the Constitutions is the image of the Vincentian Missionary. The continuing work of refinement is necessary from the material itself. The spiritual life, because it is "life", cannot be adequately confined inside of norms, because the protagonist that guides every spiritual life is the Holy Spirit. It is the Spirit that breathes where it wills and how it wills. Nonetheless the "norms" understood as the boundaries within which the life is lived, constitute the safety net that sustain it. In this sense the re-reading of these norms from a distance of twenty years, has as its purpose, bringing to the surface an even deeper spiritual sense, so that looked at in their entirety the full meaning of the Constitutions may not be missed by a hasty reading. If the constitutional principles cannot say it all, they can tell us much. In fact, if correctly understood, it fills two valuable functions. First, it points out the way in which the charism touches a specific person and leads one to the maturation of one's identity, to the end of preparing him for the mission towards which the vocation directs him. In that sense, the rule prevents personal freedom from drawing one away from the charism. Secondly, it tends to build up a uniform community. The rule, embraced in wisdom and in love, becomes the standard that sustains a community and maintains its fidelity to the charism.
Rarely in a thinker do his biographical reality and his thought coincide as tightly as they do fo... more Rarely in a thinker do his biographical reality and his thought coincide as tightly as they do for Guillaume Pouget (1847-1933). One can write his biography in a few lines; his theological reflection requires more space. Having become blind a little after becoming 50, and having been deprived of his teaching position in Church History and Old Testament in the Scholasticate of the Vincentians in Paris because of the Modernist crisis, he would have been buried in the obscurity of his later years had he not met in a rather casual way some young people of the Normal School who took away his isolation. These young students-among them J. Chevalier, J. Guitton, and E. Mounier-giving him their free time from university studies, interrogated him about the problems that modern thought posed to traditional faith. They wrote down his thoughts and reflections or, "making themselves the hand and eye" of their teacher, they worked out with him systematic reflections on the questions debated at the time. 2 It is through this rather underground path that this patient reflection on the foundations of Christianity has come to us, a 1 In this article the theological and spiritual thought of Fr. Pouget is summarized in a broad outline in the context of the theology between the two centuries. It was written to recall the 150 th anniversary of Fr. Pouget's birth. For that occasion, Fr. Pouget's niece, Mrs. Paule Houdaille, desiring to make her uncle known in his birthplace (Haute Auvergne), supported the writing of this article, which we are presenting to you and which appeared in the
Les Constitutions, source de la vie spirituelle du missionnaire Les Constitutions, source de la v... more Les Constitutions, source de la vie spirituelle du missionnaire Les Constitutions, source de la vie spirituelle du missionnaire Relecture, à 20 ans de distance, des articles 28-50 des Relecture, à 20 ans de distance, des articles 28-50 des Constitutions Constitutions Erminio Antonello C.M.
artículo se resume la pará bola del pensamiento teoló gicoespiritual del Padre Pouget en sus líne... more artículo se resume la pará bola del pensamiento teoló gicoespiritual del Padre Pouget en sus líneas esenciales dentro del contexto de la teología entre los dos siglos. Fue redactado para recordar el sesquicentenario del nacimiento del Padre Pouget. En tal ocasió n, la sobrina del Padre Pouget, la señ ora Paule Houdaille, deseosa de dar a conocer a su tío en su tierra natal (Alta Auvernia), predispuso la redacció n del artículo que ahora presentamos y que se encuentra en Revue de la
Guillaume Pouget et le renouveau théologique au tournant du XXe siècle
Quels sont les traits essentiels de la pensee theologique de Guillaume Pouget? Il adopte une posi... more Quels sont les traits essentiels de la pensee theologique de Guillaume Pouget? Il adopte une position moyenne dans la querelle entre modernisme et Vatican II, soutient l'introduction de la methode historico-critique en exegese, prend ses distances a l'egard du modernisme biblique de Loisy. Chez Pouget, la revelation apparait comme une pedagogie de la communication de Dieu. Il exige de developper une theologie positive sous forme apologetique, qui montre l'homogeneite du developpement du dogme depuis son point d'origine, a savoir a la lumiere de l'histoire critique
Monsieur Pouget face à Loisy
Autour d'un petit livre. Alfred Loisy, cent ans après, 2007
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