Zeteo #178 - Denis Marquet : Osez désirer tout

Zeteo is a free Christian podcast. To support our work with a tax-deductible donation: https://www.zeteo.fr/ Denis Marquet transcends philosophy through the person of Christ. From his early childhood, the limitations of a religious education that was too guilt-inducing at the time never turned him away from the One who reveals himself to all through the teachings that mark the Gospel. This closeness to Christ was confirmed over time and… thanks to philosophy. Because Denis Marquet understood that the thought of Christ translates and applies itself into a philosophy in its own right. That this philosophy can be transmitted and, above all, that it unfolds not in intellectual pursuits but in the lived experience of happiness and love. For Denis Marquet, the philosophy of Christ is that of happiness and love. Not in a future life, but right here and now. A happiness that rests on the audacity to dare to desire the infinite: This is a mark of the divinity toward which we all strive, the one to which God constantly invites us. Let us not be afraid of our desires, but live them intensely, by practicing the Christian path. The path that leads through healing by Jesus. He does not ask us to renounce desire, but to repair it: Christ calls us to seek “first the kingdom of God and his righteousness” (Mt 6:33). He says that this “kingdom of God is to be sought within us” (Lk 17:21). For Denis Marquet, Christ calls us here to desire fully, intensely. His therapy consists precisely in freeing desire from its main obstacle: our impulses. Author of numerous popular works, and a professor of Philosophy at Paris XII University, Sciences Po, and the Paris Graduate School of Business, Denis Marquet founded the first Philosopher-Therapist practice in France in 1997. He is the author of numerous books and articles for Libération, Psychologies Magazine, and Nouvelles Clés. In this episode, Denis Marquet radiates serenity and strength: the strength of a man who understands that everything will be alright. The looming apocalypse is, in fact, a time of light and grace: the light that bursts forth and saves humanity from the fatal chain of cause and effect it creates as soon as it turns away from God.