Grace

grâce

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Summary

Dominique Pagani approaches grace from two angles, one aesthetic and the other theological. In 2023, he reads Kleist's essay "On the Marionette Theatre." He draws out its thesis: not reflecting, not thinking and having no intention is an advantage for reaching artistic grace1. According to this text, grace is found either in what has no consciousness at all, the puppet, or in infinite consciousness, God. Creatures, placed between the two, are in disgrace2. In 2024, he links grace to the question of salvation. The quality of saviour is never earned through merit. It is always given, which points to the debate between salvation through works and free grace3 4. He cites the theory of Saint Bernard, which he presents as a source of Parsifal: grace can touch the hardened sinner and pass over the one who keeps the commandments5. Finally, he finds an avatar of grace in Proust, in the father's unexpected permission: something unforeseeable6.

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Cycle 12 · 4 Jun 2024The matrix of all illusion: the past lived as present

1:00:26The quality of savior is never earned by merit but always given: it belongs to the order of grace.
2:27:23The father's unexpected permission in Proust is an avatar of grace, an unforeseeable event.

Cycle 12 · 30 May 2024From fidelity to grace: from substance to subject

1:08:58Grace can touch the hardened sinner and pass over the one who keeps the commandments; Saint Bernard's theory, a source of Parsifal.

Cycle 12 · 21 Apr 2024Saving the saviour? Redemption, the end of the cycle or its new beginning?

47:46The quality of savior is always given, never obtained; a debate between salvation by works and free grace.

Series · 29 Sept 2023Kleist, “On the Marionette Theatre”

20:12The text's thesis: the absence of reflection, thought and intention is an advantage for attaining artistic grace.
32:01Grace appears either in what has no consciousness at all, the mannequin, or in infinite consciousness, God; creatures, caught between the two, are in disgrace.