3. 28. in his journal that 'Cardinal Pacelli tells me that he reads my works with great pleasure' (Journal II, p. 101). The sense of wonder is not dead, nor is the famous Claudelian rage. Claudel's exegesis is not systematic. assertions of the apostate and opened my eyes. 198ff His journals contain [42] 'No way through the 'Du Sens figuré de l'Écriture' is the nearest thing, but it too rambles and The above first appeared in The Downside Review 114 (1996) 79. http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/downsrev/ Unlike the strictly timeless myths of pagan antiquity, the Bible is the record of a saving 'The Old Testament must he returned to the Christian people. the spiritual value of the Law of Moses in its every detail'. ), Ayral-Clause, Odile, p. 217, 222, 225, 242, 245, 250, Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://web.archive.org/web/20051218141558/http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/15043, http://0-www.search.eb.com.library.uor.edu/ebi/article-9319794?query=salvation&ct=ebi, https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE6D8153BF937A2575AC0A962958260, Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Claudel&oldid=986395830, Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism, Ambassadors of France to the United States, Deans of the Diplomatic Corps to the United States, 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights, Articles needing additional references from December 2014, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2014, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2014, Articles with dead external links from December 2017, Articles with permanently dead external links, Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with RKDartists identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. [36] His is perhaps the most robustly anti-Marcionite exegesis of our times [37]. [57] In words written by men there and then is a message valid always and everywhere. £12.99. and again that not a jot or tittle of the law would pass away before all had been fulfilled (cf Matt 5, 18). all fictional expression, and I kneel in ceaselessly growing bedazzlement at the Sacred Books. Paul Claudel (French: [pɔl klɔdɛl]; 6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptress Camille Claudel. An autumnal peace descends upon the last years of Paul Claudel. 'Die Lesung der Heiligen Schrift "im Geist"' Internationale words and realized deeds. L'Annonce faite à Marie, where Violaine gets Mara to and the individual soul. 'For the first time I heard In April 1950 the papal admiration tor his poetry was expressed in a most remarkable Claude believed that the study of the historical sense, employing the skills of 'historical criticism', Psaume 121 (a.k.a. His reading 'Frightful pedants', he said, have turned a paradise, a promised land 'overflowing Throughout his journal, from 1904, In occupied Paris, in 1943. In his exegesis as in much else, Claudel is a faithful disciple of St Thomas Aquinas. had been protection from deception. Wien : Universal Edition, ©1969 be no sound exegesis, therefore, that ignores the concrete historical humanity of the sacred writers — who they were, when and where they lived, the language they spoke, In and from Christ no condemnation and separation: Psalms 43 and 110. 'Ma conversion', Contacts et conversations, Oeuvres complètes 16 (Paris, 1959), p. 193. The British poet W. H. Auden, at that time a left-leaning agnostic, acknowledged the importance of Paul Claudel in his famous poem "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" (1939). ... Paul Claudel at 37 Years of Age. The Psalms and their story : a study of the psalms as related to old testament history : with a preliminary study of Hebrew poetry and music / by William E. Barton. a parable. way. He has procured for himself witnesses, He was most famous for his verse dramas , which often convey his devout Catholicism . [56] Française — directed by and staring Jean-Louis There is also an attractive humour, exercised as much at his own as at others' expense. 2 (Paris, 1965), pp. Christ back into his heart, he took up a Protestant Bible belonging to his sister. no chair in Biblical studies. the imaginative and conceptual world they inhabited. Lettres au R. P. Paroissin sur la Bible (= Lettres) (Paris, 1955), p.7. Cf Dei Verbum n. 16, citing St Augustine. proposals. Atter all, on almost every page of the Bible, the Holy Spirit tells imagine that symbol implies fantasy and fiction. tragedy of The Satin Slipper imply). Church's book, and that her faith is 'that form of sym-pathia from Camille Claudel. I, p 42. Since Claudel's death, the rationalistic and reductive reading of Scripture that he called 'literalism He does not take the path recently followed (Paris, 1952), p. 58. Psaume 126 [Vulgata 126]) for male chorus a cappella, Op. Claudel made known his anger at the Vichy government's anti-Jewish legislation, courageously writing a published letter to the Chief Rabbi, Israel Schwartz, in 1941 to express "the disgust, horror, and indignation that all decent Frenchmen and especially Catholics feel in respect of the injustices, the despoiling, all the ill treatment of which our Jewish compatriots are now the victims... Israel is always the eldest son of the promise [of God], as it is today the eldest son of suffering." 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