The author sets out to interpret Spinoza's famous text (ch. xv of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus) on the possibility of salvation by faith and obedience, by projecting it in the general framework of Spinoza's system, understood as a metaphysics of participation (the finite is a part of the infinite) and as an ethics of gradual salvation by the degrees of knowledge. He concludes that the text analysed does not have a Christian meaning, as the supernatural does not have any place in Spinoza, but does have a Spinozan meaning: faith contributes to salvation, because it is not ignorance or error, but intimate and active conviction, bound to common notions and to reason.L'auteur se propose d'interpréter le célèbre texte de Spinoza (chap, xv d...