AUTORITE ET POUVOIR DANS LE DISCOURS THEOLOGIQUE ORTHODOXE EN LANGUE FRANÇAISE
AUTHORITY AND POWER IN THE FRENCH ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE

Summary/Abstract: The present article proposes a reflection on the forms of manifestation of authority and power (of a theological, ecclesiastical and spiritual type) in the Christian-Orthodox theological discourse written in French. Thus, our analysis focuses on examples of statements that criticise and denounce some liturgical practices, Eucharistic and ecclesiological interpretations inconsistent with the Tradition of the Orthodox Church and patristic writings, excerpts from fundamental works of the greatest contemporary French Orthodox theologians -Archimandrite Father Placide Deseille and professor Jean-Claude Larchet. The purpose of exercising this form of authority is the normative discursive efficiency of the statements of their authors, which consists in the prescriptive delimitation of a canonical framework of all components of the Christian-Orthodox theological type of discourse, in French language and culture.

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