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La “scrittura” teologica di Christophe Lebreton, monaco trappista di Tibhirine (Algeria). Una lettura sapienziale dell’incontro tra Gesù e la Samaritana (Gv 4,1-42)

Summary: This article presents, first of all, a precise synthesis of Lebreton’s theological style, characterized by originality and fruitfulness, rooted both in a martyr’s vocation and in literary and artistic genius. There emerges therefore an harmonious interlacing between “theology” and “biography”, a horizon of meaning, in which there resides the justification, both methodologically and content-wise, for the central and longer part of the article. Here the results are expounded of an exact interpretive reading, of a sapiential nature, of one of Lebreton’s biblical commentaries. This reading of the commentary on the account in St. John’s Gospel of Jesus’s encounter with the Samaritan Woman, a commentary prevalently written according to the method of “lectio divina”, makes it possible to appreciate some of the principal themes of that harmonious “theological thought” of the mature Lebreton, among which there stands out a fecund theology of love and relationship.

Sumario: El articulo presenta ante todo una sintesis puntual del estilo teologico de Lebreton, marcado por una originalidad y fecundidad arraigadas, sea en la vocacion martirial, sea en la genialidad literaria y artistica. Emerge por tanto el signo de una mezcla armonica entre "teologia" y "biografia", horizonte de sentido en que encuentra su justificacion metodologica y de contenido la parte central y mas extensa del articulo, en el que son expuestos los resultados de una puntual lectura interpretativa, de caracter sapiencial, de uno de los comentarios biblicos escritos por Lebreton. Esta lectura del comentario a la narracion joanica del encuentro de Jesus con la mujer samaritana, en el que prevalece el empleo del metodo de la lectio divina, permite apreciar algunas de las tematicas destacadas de aquel "pensamiento teologico" armonioso de Lebreton que alcanzo ya su madurez, entre los que emerge una fecunda teologia del amor y la relacion.