Pierre Manent publishes a book on Pascal, the preface of which was published in the last issue of
Commentaire
under the title “Europe and the Christian question”.
This uncompromising reflection tries to take the measure of an obviousness which should disturb more than it is the case: the peoples of this continent are installed
"in a quiet ignorance of the religious question"
, they have
"become impervious to ( their) historical religion
".
Failing to explain this collective choice, the author identifies what could have contributed to making us pass from a Christianity to a society made up of individual wills that no membership obliges.
The original Christian organization was the opposite of this immanence.
We take up here elements of this analysis by putting them in another perspective.
Christianity has no existence separable from its religious determination.
It differs in this from Judaism, which existed before Abraham and Moses, which has a mixed history to which the Elder…
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