L'homme de douleur protestant au temps des guerres de religion

The Protestant Man off Suffering in the Times off the Wan of Religion - In the age of religious upheavals, suffering was a recurrent theme in Reformed apologetics. Antoine de la Roche-Chandieu's treatise, published soon after the first War of Religion, expounds a discourse which justifies the trials endured by Protestants since 1557. His model is the Calvinist martyr, and the account of giving one's life for one's faith, from arrest to execution, is organized in correlation to the manifestation of Christ-God. This « sacred theatre » strives to disqualify royal justice, to attest to the divine presence at the side of the new Church, and to legitimize the first rebellions. Thus a Reformed culture of Christian suffering did indeed exist, whose axis was the divine union through faith.El Kenz David. L'homme de douleur protestant au temps des guerres de religion. In: Médiévales, n°27, 1994. Du bon usage de la souffrance, sous la direction de Piroska Zombory-Nagy et Véronique Frandon. pp. 59-66