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By : Hubert Bost - Friday, 25 February 2011 00:00 |
 In the eyes of modern prophetic literature and religious stakes, two centuries have a great prestige: the 16th with the centuries of Nostradamus and the 18th century with the French Revolution. Between these two centuries, the 17th seems, more a century of transition and preparation. But if we study the relations that had Catholicism, protestantism and Judaism, we observe that this century was rich in events, premises which consequences manifest in whole Europe.
By the revocation of the Edit de Nantes the 18th of October of 1685, Louis XIV shows that there are no more religions authorized in France out of catholic religion. The persecution of the protestant minority begins. Thousands of people, pastors especially, are condemned to secrecy or to exile.
Facing such a repression, a search of new references will make emerge a strange phenomenon: prophetism. Seculars, first preachers then prophets, take over exiled pastors. They consider that "ruin of Babylon" (the end of Catholic Church) is close, prophecy feeds reflexions of the Calvinist theologist Pierre Jurieu who preached that Calvinism would be reestablished in France in 1689. He will be wrong.   Analog phenomenon in the Iberian peninsula. The Spanish inquisition force Jewish to convert to Christianism on pain of death o exile. Many of them will choose to remain Jewish but secretly. They will be known as marranes. Some will be exiled, especially in Holland. One of the great figures of Judaism of Amsterdam from that diaspora was Ménasseh Ben Israël. Talmudist, Kabbalist, printer, editor, he wanted to "rejudaize" the clandestine Jewish who came from the Iberian peninsula. He asks Cromwell the right for the Jewish to go back to England convinced that these ones had to integrate the countries from which they were driven out. He will fail too.   In this debate presented by Jacques Halbronn, historians Hubert Bost, specialist of the protestant world in the 17th and 18th century and Daniel Lindenberg, professor, writer specialist of marranism will talk about the relations between politic, religion and prophecies... and specifies respective roles by Jewish and protestants in this new prophetism world. A 50-minutes debate filmed at the Forum 104.
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