Language:
French
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Etudes Théologiques et Religieuses
Angaben zur Quelle:
98,4 (2023) 481-504
Keywords:
Spinoza, Benedictus de, Criticism and interpretation
;
Penrose, Roger
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Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Methodology
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Religion and science
;
God Biblical teaching
;
Myth
Abstract:
At the dawn of the 21st century, theories and debates on the possible evolution of man and society under the influence of virtual and digital worlds are flourishing. We even hear of post-humanity projects. Meanwhile, critical studies (historical and literary) of the Bible are petering out and ensnared in a dry intellectualism, whereas the common Christian – when not taken hostage by gurus – is incessantly disoriented by the gap between daily experience and inherited representations of the spiritual universe. Representations that are mostly rooted in a certain transmission of biblical writings. In this article, the author proceeds from an inspired intuition of two great innovators of their time: Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677) who tried to render this matrix of representations, the Scripture, to the freedom of thought and Roger Penrose (1931-) whose new theory unifies the world of natural sciences and the universe of the human mind. By reviving conservation-restoration theologies as carried by the mythical assertions on divine reign and the king of divine filiation, the author introduces the old philosophical concepts of consciousness, memory and structure – redefined by natural sciences – into the hermeneutic questioning of the biblical scholar. In three stages, she tends to puncture the myth of the “divine reign” in the light of these concepts reviewed by physics, neurology and molecular biology. The main question focuses on the material, structural or procedural realities evoked by myths: can the material universe of myths be subjected to investigations which call for new concepts that redefine our perception of the Universe?
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