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Questions about the Nicene Creed 1700 years later

My friend, you hold in your hands a lucid and daring book, worthy of its provocative title: Le Credo de Nicée est-il toujours croyable? (Is the Nicene Creed still credible?). Paul Fleuret, “barefoot biblical scholar” and “lay Christian in exodus” in his own words, offers us a documented, concise and limpid analysis of the tangled […]

The passover of Jesus and the passover of the universe

1 – We celebrate the passover of Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth, condemned and crucified because of his brotherly and risky life, his liberating and free life, his paschal life. We celebrate the passover of Jesus because we recognize that his life of solidarity and violent death were a passover, a liberating passage from life […]

To Hélène Dupont. Obituary

In the morning of March 22, I received the following email message: “Last night, Hélène left us in her sleep, quietly, just like that. She passed away gently, with no fighting. She was efficient all her life and without making any fuss. We will miss her”. These words express all the essentials with the sober […]

Christmas and the future of the human species

On 1 December, as the season called Advent (Coming) covering the four weeks leading up to Christmas was about to commence in the Christian liturgical calendar, Leonardo Boff’s weekly column was entitled “Are we approaching the end of the human species?” Basically, it reproduces a text published in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. For years […]

Keys to a transtheist Christology

It is not easy to offer today a presentation of Jesus of Nazareth that is brief, substantial and easy to understand, in addition to being interesting and novel. Annamaria Corallo has done so in this book and I congratulate her with the same pleasure that I have read these pages. Pages that instruct the mind […]

In memory of Jacques Gaillot, Bishop of the Excluded

Yesterday, April 12, at the age of 88, Monsignor Gaillot, Bishop of Evreux (France) from 1982 to 1995, died. He was a peaceful and energetic man, passionate about justice for all the excluded, a prophet of the Good News of Jesus, of a fraternal world, of a human Church. He supported conscientious objection against military […]

Christian Christmas and Universal Christmas

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 […]

Can we still call “God” to what inspired Jesus?

Extended text of my intervention at the International Online Consultation For a bioecocentric humanism: What can we, the followers of Jesus, contribute? (June 5, 2022). What can we, the followers of Jesus, contribute to bioecocentric humanism? Not a surplus of values, nor an exclusive foundation, but the inspiration of Jesus, the inspiration that moved him […]

What God, what Jesus, what Christianity?

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 […]

Shepherds in Bethlehem on their way to peace

At the end of the Christmas festivities, I return to the narrative in Luke’s gospel about the shepherds in the fields of Bethlehem, shepherds that look for, find, and build peace. We see ourselves in them. And to better see ourselves in them, let’s say it again in case it is still necessary: all the […]