Christianity – Thresholds of Light

On the future of Christianity: the fourth hypothesis (Maurice Bellet)

01/09/2025/in Uncategorized /by José Arregi

I thank Bernard Ginisty for publishing this text on August 20, 2025, on the web page GARRIGUES ET SENTIERS. Espaces de liberté, de foi et de réflexion chrétiennes (https://www.garriguesetsentiers.org/2025/08/sur-l-avenir-du-christianisme-la-quatrieme-hypothese-maurice-bellet.html) Does Christianity have a future? This is the theme that Maurice Bellet develops in a study titled The fourth hypothesis: On the future of Christianity[1]. […]

Rethinking Christianity

25/03/2024/in Prefaces, Reflections /by José Arregi

(Foreword to: Por un cristianismo creíble. [In Support of a Credible Christianity] Author: Pedro Miguel Ansó-Esarte. Publ. Tirant lo Blanc, 2024) What you have here is a tremendous little book, profound and simple, interesting and vibrant, critical and impeccably respectful, and brimming with information and clarity. Each chapter, brief yet substantial in equal measure, strikes […]

Christian Christmas and Universal Christmas

24/12/2022/in Reflections /by José Arregi

It could be that perhaps we do not like too much this Christmas with its illuminated streets, consumerist propaganda, over-played carols, unenthusiastic reunions, obligatory gifts…, or that we even dislike it. Yet, if we could free it from commercial exploitation, our deceitful ambitions, even from our boring liturgies, empty words and outdated dogmas, if we […]

Bernard Besret: the utopia of Boquen

02/10/2022/in Reflections, Witnesses to Light /by José Arregi

In the hot afternoons of the first week of last August, in the shade of a lime tree in Champigny-sur-Veude, a peaceful French village surrounded by wide sunflower and corn fields, I read with both enthusiasm and uneasiness Béatrice Lebel-Goascoz’s doctoral dissertation Boquen entre utopie et révolution1965-1976 (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015). It is a […]

What God, what Jesus, what Christianity?

15/04/2022/in Reflections /by José Arregi

Text of my intervention at the (telematic) I International Congress “Beyond Religions”, organised by GABRIELLI EDITORI in collaboration with ADISTA (April 2, 2022). I propose 10 points for reflection that I consider fundamental in these times of transition towards a non-theistic, post-theistic or transtheistic philosophy, theology and spirituality. This last term, “transtheistic”, is the one […]

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