Bible sans Parole, Bible sans paroles ? : De la recherche d’identité à l’écoute de la Parole

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In North America as well as in Europe, society and culture have become extremely pluralistic. In this context, religions have developed the capacity to constitute identity on both the personal and group levels. In Churches, the Bible is often referred to as the main source of Christian identity. But what happens to this search for identity when the three following movements are taken into account: from Christian identity to the identity of the Christian, from transmission of contents and messages to the integration of experience through cultural inscription, and from a text offering answers about identity to a text given to be read from our questions about it? A careful reading of certain texts of the New Testament, especially in the Gospel of Mark, shifts the question of an identity process which would be readily available in the Bible itself. Finally, one must tackle the hermeneutical difficulties peculiar to reading the text of the Bible in the light of our contemporary questions.