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Henri Tintant face au problème "Science et Foi"

From an early age Henri Tintant was conforted with the problematic relationships between Science and Faith. After a traditional religious education, he took responsabilities within groups of teenagers and adults through scouting and the J. E. C. (an organisation of catholic students). In 1940 he was at Montpellier distributing unauthorised leaflets defending religious faith. But more significant is his intellectual contribution. He was an active and inspiring member of several workshops and in one in particumar initiated by the Catholic University of Lyon entitled : "From Naturalist to Theologians" where he would start a very fruitful and compelling intellectual collaboration with Father Gustave Martelet a jesuit theologian and a strong supporter of a permanent dialog with the scientists. Throughout the years they will gradually come to the conclusion of a necessary synergy between the scientific and the theologic approach when dealing with the mystery of religious faith . Even in the last months of his life, Henri Tintant was writing to his friendon the subject, with the same profound religious faith that brought him the serenity and the open mindness he has showed throughout his teaching and scientific career. His legacy will remain in two of his last thoughts: "Almost 50 years of scientific research have brought me a lot of pleausures and satisfactions but no answer to the essential questions. In my personal case, science and researching have not driven me away from my religious faith, on the contrary the helped me in my awareness of its utmost necessity". "Faithful to my religious belief, I am convinced that with the death, the inevitable human destiny, not everything disapears completely but another form of live, unimaginable for our limited minds, emerges, bearing in itself the perfect realization of all our hopes and desires".

Georges-Henri Rivière na génese do Museu Calouste Gulbenkian. Contributos para o estudo da colaboração entre o museólogo francês e a Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

A abertura ao público do Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, em Outubro de 1969, resultou de um longo processo de programação, iniciado em Julho de 1956, alicerçado no trabalho continuado de uma equipa fixa, informado pelo contributo inestimável de um numeroso conjunto de consultores permanentes e de consultores pontuais. O presente artigo resulta da investigação desenvolvida no âmbito da nossa dissertação de mestrado em Museologia e Património, no qual, com base na análise de um conjunto de documentos de programação do Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, procurámos identificar os contributos de Maria José de Mendonça e de Georges-Henri Rivière para a génese da exposição permanente daquele Museu. Georges-Henri Rivière, então director do ICOM, foi, a partir de 1958, consultor permanente da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, na área da museologia. Para este breve artigo recuperámos, daquele estudo académico, um conjunto de propostas de programação para o Museu Calouste Gulbenkian patentes em cinco relatórios de consultoria (três deles inéditos) assinados por Rivière. Sabemos hoje, que umas não passariam para a programação definitiva do edifício do Museu, enquanto outras constituíram contributos directos dessa personalidade maior da museologia do século XX, marcando, na sua génese, a programação da exposição das galerias públicas do Museu.