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He was born near Lausanne in Switzerland.
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Après avoir lu ce livre on se demande qui osera encore se faire appeler pasteur ? Alexandre Vinet y développe un idéal si élevé du ministère évangélique qu'il risque d'effrayer ceux qui en ont reçu la vocation. Cependant, en réaffirmant avec clarté et solennité le sérieux et la consécration qui devraient caractériser les serviteurs de Christ à plein temps dans son Église, la théologie pastorale de Vinet apportera un contraste très stimulant et très profitable avec l'amateurisme de notre époque.
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Alexandre Vinet a été couramment considéré comme le plus grand penseur évangélique de son siècle, un Pascal protestant a-t-on même dit. En lisant les vingt-quatre discours de ce recueil on conviendra en effet qu'ils sont mieux intitulés 'méditations' que 'sermons' ; ils s'adressent aux âmes chrétiennes qui ne se satisfont pas des lieux communs de la prédication , mais qui veulent prendre le temps de réfléchir à leur propre nature et à ses rapports avec Dieu. En ce sens Vinet rejoint les littérateurs et les moralistes du 18e, dont il s'est abondamment nourri : les La Bruyère, les Bossuet, les Racine, les Massillon, les Bourdaloue, qui partagent l'étude des ressorts de l'âme humaine, de sa confrontation avec la volonté du Dieu trois fois saint, de la paix et des consolations qu'elle n'obtient que dans sa grâce. Les méditations de Vinet se relisent sans ennui, signe certain de leur valeur.
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C'est en Christ que sont cachés les trésors de la sagesse divine ; l'épître aux Colossiens nous en dévoile une partie. Avec sa profondeur habituelle Alexandre Vinet nous conduit à travers cette lettre, non par une exégèse verset par verset, mais par une série de messages centrés sur la primauté de Jésus-Christ dans tous les domaines de la vie du chrétien.
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Vlll ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOBS. completely transcribed by bim in his note-book They appeared to us, at once too extended to be inserted in the course, and yet so important that we could not content ourselves with simply referring to them. Bengel s Thoughts, which precede the A ppendix, have been translated from the (G erman, by M. Yinet, and published separately in a small 16mo pamphlet. Allusions will occasionally be found to the institutions of the National Church of the Canton de Vaud. We may remind the reader that the greater number of M. Yinet shearers were preparing for the ministry in this church, with which he did not cease to be connected, so far as worship is concerned, until a Free Church was established in the Canton de Yaud, in consequence of the resignation of a large number of the pastors in the National Church. We hope that this course of Pastoral Theology will be well received, not only by Ministers of the Gospel, and students in Theology, for whom it is more immediately designed, but also by the religious public generally. M. Yinet sfundamental idea should recommend his book to the serious attention of all Mends of the gospel. The pastor is not, in his view, an isolated being, banished from the general conmiunity of Christiaiis into the retirement of a remote and solitary dignity, to which simple believers may not aspire. He regards him not so much above them, as at their head, their advanced leader in the work of love. Accordingly his functions are not his exclusive prerogative ;on the contrary, all ought to associate actively with him, and will, in fact, so associate with him according to the measure of their faithftdness. The pastor is not different from the Christian jhe is the typal Christian, the example for his flock, 1T im. iv. 12. All Christians, therefore, will find that precious instruction may be gathered from this book. This (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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journalist philosopher theologian
He was born near Lausanne in Switzerland.
University of Lausanne.
His literary criticism brought him into contact with Augustin Sainte-Beuve, for whom he obtained an invitation to lecture at Lausanne, which led to his famous work on Portuguese-Royal. Vinet"s Chrestomathie française (1829), his Études sur la littérature française au XIXe siècle (1840-1851), and his Histoire de la littérature française au XVIIe siècle, together with his Études sur Pascal, Études sur les moralistes aux XVe et XVIe siècles, Histoire de la prédication parmi les Réformes de France and other related works, gave evidence of a wide knowledge of literature, acute literary judgment and a distinguished faculty of appreciation. He adjusted his theories to the work under review, and condemned nothing as long as it met his literary standards.
Lord Acton classed him with Richard Rothe.
His philosophy relied strongly on conscience, defined as that by which man stands in direct personal relation with God as moral sovereign, and the seat of a moral individuality which nothing can rightly infringe. He advocated complete freedom of religious belief, and to this end the formal separation of church and state (Mémoire en faveur de la liberté des cultes (1826), Essai sur la conscience (1829), Essai sur la manifestation des convictions religieuses (1842).
Accordingly, when in 1845 the civil power in the canton of Vaud interfered with the church"s autonomy, he led a secession which took the name of L"Église libre. But already from 1831, when he published his Discours sur quelques sujets religieux (Nouveaux discours, 1841), he had begun to exert a liberalizing and deepening influence on religious thought far beyond his own canton, by bringing traditional doctrine to the test of a living personal experience (see also Gaston Frommel).
In this he resembled FW Robertson, as also in the change which he introduced into pulpit style and in the permanence of his influence.
Vinet died at Clarens (Vaud). A considerable part of his work was not printed till after his death.
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(Alexandre Vinet a été couramment considéré comme le plus ...)
(Excerpt from Poetes du Siecle de Louis XIV L'opinion ge...)
(C'est en Christ que sont cachés les trésors de la sagesse...)
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