A protestant saying to catholics

FOREWORD AT ADDRESS CATHOLIC READER

This book is addressed primarily to all Catholics who wish to learn from the Protestant faith, especially in its "evangelical" version. Many reductive clichés circulate on the evangelicals, which have what to fear: Fundamentalists taking the Bible literally, illuminated demonizing the Catholic Church and refusing any form of oeucumenism being the work of Satan, etc. To answer these accusations, which testify more to ignorance and ignorance, this book means showing that "evangelical theology" is, on the contrary, extremely solid and argumentative, rooted in an interpretation of the Saint Scriptures, which has been shared on some points by the greatest theologians (from St. Augustine to Pascal, via Luther and Calvin), that it wants fully faithful to Scripture, while being aware of the plurality of interpretations opened by it. In a word, far from contempt sometimes postered by some Catholics often too sure of their beliefs and their own tradition, it is appropriate to take the movement very seriously in the coming years, such as the
main "living force" of Christianity, through zeal and conviction which its members show.

In a more personal way, I must admit that the writing of this book was, for me, accompanied by a real "existential crisis" that took me seen, on several occasions, swinging between Catholicism and Protestantism, this including my former colleagues from Sainte-Marie de Lyon who followed my spirituality, have been witnesses. Make the choice to give up a confession in which we always believed, that we always defended when it was attacked (all my former students can confirm ...) is a path difficult and painful. If I have written this book, it is first of all to explain it to all those who know me, and who may have difficulties to follow the meanders of my intellectual and spiritual journey. They will discover in this book, I hope, that my adherence to evangelical faith relies on the reasons of which we must be careful not to take lightly, because they are the fruit of a theological deepening to which all men who research sinserely the truth can't escape.