of God's Word and Wisdom that is enfleshed by the Spirit in the body of the letter. poison and putrefaction' (Oeuvre poétique, p. 261). Miserere mei Clare Costley King'oo Not in Library. in one person. [53] This was exactly the quest of Claudel. manifest his distinctive approach to Scripture. imagine that symbol implies fantasy and fiction. Since the very beginning of his career as a poet, Paul Claudel’s creation goes with a translation work, which accompanies it over many years. [2] His father, Louis-Prosper, dealt in mortgages and bank transactions. readings of some of his religious poems and ot his meditation on the Fourth Station of the Cross, all of which 55. 'Everything is symbol in nature, and everything is parable in event'. Claudel reads the whole Bible, as did the Fathers, in the light of Jesus Christ: in the Old he is prophesied, [36] His is perhaps the most robustly anti-Marcionite exegesis of our times [37]. In his monumental study Exégèse Médiévale Cardinal de Lubac quotes Claudel in a matter-of-fact way alongside the commentators of the Middle Ages. Paul Claudel was elected to the Académie française on 4 April 1946. What he was trying to say was this: the human aspects of Scripture to shatter apparently unified works into a multitude of sources or stages of redaction, to distance the sacred 23 (Paris. Paul Claudel (French: [pɔl klodɛl]; 6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. 26. [57] In words written by men there and then is a message valid always and everywhere. 2 Cited by André Rousseaux in Litteréature du XXe siècle, vol. Scriptures and the person of Christ, true God and true man in one person. both enlightening and entertaining. 'What is the Pentateuch?' 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." [citation needed], After a long affair with Rosalie Vetch, a married woman with four children and pregnant with Claudel's child, ended in February 1905 (Vetch left him for another man), Claudel married Reine Sainte-Marie-Perrin on 15 March 1906. of Christian culture in the face of Nazi paganism. Paul Claudel (French: [pɔl klɔdɛl]; 6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. and listens In April 1950 the papal admiration tor his poetry was expressed in a most remarkable our own century by the German Christians of Nazi Germany. HOW TO READ THE BIBLE: CLAUDEL'S SUGGESTIONS. Contains settings of Psalms 129, 145, 147, 136, 128, and 127. us is to read it in the attitude of the Church's faith. He cannot read the Bible, her book, without her, but then he cannot The Satin Slipper was premièred. but with those which the whole Church majestically unfolds for us in her teaching and in her liturgy'. to telling the 'honest truth about Jesus', what he really did and taught for our eternal salvation. without which [it] remains a closed book'. times owes so much to the Scriptures, for doininant themes as well as imagery; even his prosody, the strange music O Credo entire of things visible and invisible, I accept you with a Catholic heart! ). [31], Similarly, only the prosaic would think that the Gospel-writers have conjured the matchless deeds There is nothing élitist, nothing precious, about the claims of Claudel. It is the infinite richness This attitude would be neither 'fundamentalism' nor In the two decades before his death, this long love-affair bore fruit 50. [citation needed], His address of a poem ("Paroles au Maréchal," "Words to the Marshal") to Marshal Philippe Pétain after the defeat of France in 1940, commending Petain for picking up and salvaging France's broken, wounded body, has been unflatteringly remembered, though it is less a paean to Pétain than a patriotic lament over the condition of France. It comes from the same materialist mentality that would 'explain a Titian 537) the determining principle and centre of all Christian exegesis. 'For the first time I heard He rejected traditional metrics in favour of long, luxuriant, unrhymed lines of free verse, the so-called verset claudelien, influenced by the Latin psalms of the Vulgate. [citation needed], As well as his verse dramas, Claudel also wrote much lyric poetry, for example the Cinq Grandes Odes (Five Great Odes, 1907). 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