Les amis du Ressuscité dans le siècle des menaces et de la solitude

In a global context marked by the pervasive threats of armed conflict, pandemics, and environmental depletion, the proclamation of Jesus’s resurrection demands linguistic and conceptual frameworks capable of rendering its message both audible and theologically resonant. This study proposes an interpretation of the Resurrection beginning from the premise that the disciples’ encounter with the Risen Christ was shaped, in part, by the relational intimacy cultivated during their shared experience of friendship with Jesus in his public ministry. The Gospels’ resurrection narratives reflect traces of this personal proximity, suggesting a continuity between historical companionship and post-resurrection revelation. By engaging these narratives through the hermeneutical lens of friendship – augmented by speculative theological insights – this article seeks to delineate conditions under which contemporary individuals might approximate an experiential encounter with the Risen One. Such a theological approach offers renewed possibilities for engaging Christ relationally in a world beset by alienation and solitude. The spiritual appropriation of this relational dynamic is posited as a potential response to the existential afflictions of fear, disorientation, discouragement, and defeatism endemic to modernity.