La Bonne Nouvelle de Dieu. Une analyse de la figure narrative de Dieu dans les discours pétriniens d'évangélisation des Actes des Apôtres

La Bonne Nouvelle de Dieu. Une analyse de la figure narrative de Dieu dans les discours pétriniens d'évangélisation des Actes des Apôtres (2004) is a book by Christian Dionne

Abstract

"‘Good news from God’, as the title puts it, or ‘Good news from Jesus Christ’? How does one articulate, in a coherent way, these two realities that form the core of Peter’s evangelical discourse in the Acts of the Apostles? While acknowledging that Jesus Christ plays a vital role in the proclaiming of the Good News, we may feel that the role and function of God therein have been neglected: an astonishing situation, to say the least, since God is presented as an active personage whose pronouncements and actions are constantly brought to the fore of reader’s mind. To explore this problematic, Christian Dionne has elected for a synchronic study of the texts, employing one particular methodological tool: the characterisation of the protagonists. This tool, developed through analysis of the narrative, enables one to answer such questions as: what are the characteristics that constitute the narrative figure of God in the Petrine discourse? How are these characteristics developed or modified as the story unfolds? How does the ‘God’ personage evolve with regard to the other characters and the intrigues of the plot? Where does our information about God come from? In this way, the author demonstrates that the theology of discourse constitutes an essential and fundamental component of the bringing of the Good News as it was addressed to the Jews." [Source: http://www.editionsducerf.fr]

Editions and translations

Published in Paris [France]: Éditions du Cerf, 2004 (Lectio Divina, 195; ISBN 2-204-07213-3).