Bossuet’s Church as the City of the Poor
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Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704), a great French figure of the 17th century, orator, writer, and tutor to Louis XIV’s Dauphin, stood out in Paris for his homilies, one of which we study here, “L’éminente dignité des pauvres dans l’Église”, in English “The Eminent Dignity of the Poor in the Church”, delivered in 1659 when he was still a priest. With a dialectical structure reminiscent of St. Augustine’s The City of God, Bossuet affirms that just as in the world the rich have privileges and the poor suffer marginalization, in the Kingdom of God, on the other hand, the poor come first and the rich are invited to enter, but by the hand of the poor. The Church has historically made the Kingdom of God transparent, and hence is considered “the City of the Poor”. This thesis emerges from christology and ecclesiology and has important anthropological and social consequences, both in the 17th century and in our time.
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