Issued also as thesis, Zürich.

Thèse--Istanbul, 1965. / Summary in Turkish. Bibliography: p. [123]-125.

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Philosophy--Minneapolis, 1979. / Thèse soutenue sous le titre : "Monde des sens, rhétorique et structure chez Georges Bernanos"

Thèse--Istanbul, 1965. / Summary in Turkish. Bibliography: p. [123]-125.

Diss.--Catholic University of America, 1959. / Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thèse--Lettres--Paris III, 1977. / La couv. porte en plus : "de l'exorcisme à l'exégèse" Bibliogr. des œuvres de G. Bernanos, p. I-III. Bibliogr. p. IX-XXXIII.

Thèse--Fribourg. / Bibliography: p. 307-318.

Thèse--Fribourg. / Bibliography: p. 307-318.

Confronter écriture fictionnelle narrative et transcendance à partir des métamorphoses que le romancier Georges Bernanos fait subir à son œuvre pendant les vingt années de son élaboration, nécessite une triple approche critique : générique, génétique, herméneutique. L’étude générique permet de comprendre comment les huit narrations relèvent le défi d’intégrer une notion à la fois théologique, métaphysique et mystique dans un cadre fictionnel par une mise en roman non réductrice. L’analyse génétique dessine une topographie et une chronographie des métamorphoses de cette écriture, de la page manuscrite raturée et corrigée à la totalité achevée de l’œuvre romanesque, sans oublier le bloc autonome et homogène constitué par l’unité scripturale et structurelle du roman. L’investigation herméneutique révèle les deux supports privilégiés au déploiement de cette écriture : la bible comme transcendance textuelle et l’aventure mystique chrétienne comme transcendance faite chair. / Confronting fictional narrative writing and transcendence thanks to the metamorphosis that the novelist Georges Bernanos had been subjecting his work to for its twenty years’ development requires a threefold critical approach: generic, genetic, hermeneutic. The generic study makes it clear how the eight narrations are challenged to integrate a theological, metaphysical and mystical concept in a fictional setting with a non-reductive novel. Genetic analysis is pointing out a metamorphosis’s topography and timeline of the writing in the corrected crossed-out hand-written page, and in the completed fiction work, not to mention the homogeneous self-block consisting in the scriptural and structural unit of a novel. The hermeneutic investigation reveals the two preferred deployment means of this writing: the Bible as textual transcendence and the Christian mystical adventure as incarnate transcendence.

Stellvertretung represents a consistent and central hermeneutic for Bonhoeffer. This thesis demonstrates that, in contrast to other translations, a more precise interpretation of Bonhoeffer's use of Stellvertretung would be 'vicarious suffering'. For Bonhoeffer Stellvertretung as 'vicarious suffering' illuminates not only the action of God in Christ for the sins of the world, but also Christian discipleship as participation in Christ's suffering for others; to be as Christ: Schuldübernahme. In this understanding of Stellvertretung as vicarious suffering Bonhoeffer demonstrates independence from his Protestant (Lutheran) heritage and reflects an interpretation that bears comparison with broader ecumenical understanding. This study of Bonhoeffer's writings draws attention to Bonhoeffer's critical affection towards Catholicism and highlights the theological importance of vicarious suffering during a period of renewal in Catholic theology, popular piety and fictional literature. Although Bonhoeffer references fictional literature in his writings, and indicates its importance in ethical and theological discussion, there has been little attempt to analyse or consider its contribution to Bonhoeffer's theology. This thesis fills this lacuna in its consideration of the reception by Bonhoeffer of the writings of Georges Bernanos, Reinhold Schneider and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Each of these writers features vicarious suffering, or its conceptual equivalent, as an important motif. According to Bonhoeffer Christian discipleship is the action of vicarious suffering (Stellvertretung) and of Verantwortung (responsibility) in love for others and of taking upon oneself the Schuld that burdens the world.