La théologie politique des évêques français de 1919 à 1939
Jean-Louis Clément.The French Bishops, in the inter-war years, have favoured the elaboration of a political theology, which, upto 1930, they rooted in the sovereignty of God, Creator of the Universe, and which, later on, they built on the idea of the human person, at the service of which stand both society and State. They endeavoured to promote that theology since 1919, but very specially in the thirties, in the thick of the parliamentary crisis. In the hope of countering the blossoming of political doctrines scorning the concept of «person», the Assembly of Cardinals and Archbishops offered the faithful a political catechism drafted by abbé Daniel-Joseph Lallement. Under the Daladier government, the episcopate entered into negociations for a new concordate, with a project that aimed at rooting in the conscience the obedience to the Authority.