(Calenda announcement 994829 )
This study day recapitulates, without concluding it, the reflection of the Institute for the Study of Religious Facts (IEFR) and the Faculty of Theology of Lille on the virtues of temperance, charity and hope. In this, we find the approach of Paul of Tarsus who, in his Epistle to the Romans (12,13), after having valued the so-called theological virtues, recommended "to exercise hospitality". Without hospitality assumed and put into practice, these virtues would be diminished; we will see why. The various interventions, animated by an interdisciplinary curiosity, will examine why the biblical tradition values the meaning of hospitality. One ambition: to take up and judge for our time the worried remark of Jean Daniélou who, in 1953, deplored a real "lack of a sense of hospitality"; hospitality which he nevertheless presents as "a great human reality". No doubt we still have difficulty in understanding that the host is both the one who welcomes and the one who is welcomed.
