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1997
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Adolphe Gesché, « L'invention chrétienne de la liberté », Revue Théologique de Louvain, ID : 10.3406/thlou.1997.2866
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It was ancient Greece which was the inventor of the long, difficult and superb adventure of freedom. Yet is it not possible that Greek thought, caught in a stranglehold between Chance and Necessity, did not manage to give to freedom its full place while the Judaeo -Christian idea of a Subject at the origin of ail things may have been able to place Freedom at the origin ? Thanks to such a position which elevates Freedom to the status of the very intention and movement of Creation, mankind finds in freedom, with its capacity and duty ofinventiveness, the full rights ofits being. In the game of creation, where God like man opposes the sole rule of «sujficient reason» or «reason for being» which stifle inventiveness, there is a right to a certain « irrationality » .