Article
French
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Abstract
For Marie-Anne Vannier, although the Fathers of the Church did not explicitly talk about the organic nature of the content of the faith, they lived out its reality, that is, the synergy between the different branches of theology, which at the time were not separated from the liturgy, the sacraments, theology, prayer or ethics. While few echoes of this reality as such have come down to us, the catecheses of the Church Fathers remain its privileged testimonies, without losing anything of their force thanks precisely to the organic nature of the content of the faith that they express and in the very way in which they articulate that reality. This article analyses three examples drawn from the catechumenate of the Early Church: the Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching by Irenaeus of Lyon, the First Catechetical Instruction by Augustine of Hippo, and the Baptismal Catecheses by Cyril of Jerusalem. These works present three different but convergent ways, Marie-Anne Vannier argues, of forming catechumens in order to enter into the organic nature of the content of the faith. Nor is the mystagogical catechesis to be forgotten, which, according to Vannier, had the same purpose but using another method. Finally, the article invites the reader to rediscover once again the dynamism of the Patristic texts.