La patience chrétienne et la perception du temps dans la lenteur. Une analyse discursive
Christian patience and the perception of time slowly. A discursive analysis

Author(s): Felicia Dumas
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Lexis, Semantics, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: patience; Orthodox tradition; French language; slowness; endurance; eternal life;
Summary/Abstract: The present article proposes a discursive approach to the notion of patience such as it is used in French hagiographic narratives. Based on a semantic analysis of the nouns patience and longanimité (“forbearance”), it highlights the eschatological dimension associated to the practice of the Christian virtue designed by the first lexeme and the spiritual impact of its meaning. It is the actualization of this meaning in different discursive contexts that is the object of our analysis, with a view to the perception of time seized in its slowness, via endurance. Our corpus is made up by the Orthodox Synaxarion in usage at the Monastery of Saint-Antoine-le-Grand (in France), which represents an abridged version of the Synaxarion. Lives of the Saints of the Orthodox Church by Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petra (the most complete French Synaxarion, well known in French and Francophone Orthodox milieus).

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