Abstract

Reading Maurice Blondel the philosopher leads Henri Bouillard the theologian to claim, in his work on Karl Barth, a knowledge of God of philosophical origin. His acquaintance with the philosopher Éric Weil makes him advocate, in his later works, a knowledge of God of religious origin. His successive stances pass through an hermeneutic of the definition of the first Council of Vatican, and his final position is governed by presuppositions that will be confirmed subsequently.