Information AboutAlfred Loisy |
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KIRCHENLEXIKON ("Church Dictionary", with "LOISY, Alfred Firmin"), Bautz.de, 2006-03-23, webpage: Bautz-German-Loisy . was a French Roman Catholic priest, professor and Theologian who became the intellectual standard bearer for Biblical Modernism in the Roman Catholic Church. He was a critic of traditional views of the Biblical accounts of Creation , and argued that biblical Criticism could be applied to interpreting Scripture . His theological positions brought him into conflict with the leading Catholics of his era, including Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius X . In 1893 , he was dismissed as a professor from the Catholic Institute of Paris . His books were condemned by the Vatican , and in 1908 he was Excommunicate d. Loisy's most famous observation was that ‘Jesus came preaching the Kingdom, and what arrived was the Church’ (‘Jésus annonçait le Royaume et c'est l'Église qui est venue’: Loisy 1902), and he is often taken to have said that with a note of regret (Loisy 1976: 166). But for all his clashes with the Roman Catholic hierarchy, Loisy actually thought that Jesus did intend to form some sort of society or community. It was the aping of civil government (‘comme celle d'un gouvernement établi’; Loisy 1902: 152) which he doubted Jesus intended. LIFE AND WORK Born on February 28 , 1857 at Ambriéres, Loisy was educated within the Catholic system, from 1874 - 1879 at the ''Grand Séminaire von Châlons'', and entered ''Institut Catholique'' at Paris in 1878 / 1879 . He was ordained on June 29th 1879. After an illness he returned to the Institut in 1881 as a professor of Hebrew. He published his "Five Thesis" which was firmly rejected. This Thesis stated that the Pentateuch was not the work of Moses , that the first five chapters of Genesis are not literal history, that the New Testament and the Old Testament do not possess equal historical value, that there has been a development in the religious doctrine in scripture, and that the sacred writings have the same limitations as all other authors of the ancient world. In 1899 he resigned and was appointed lecturer at ''École Practique des Hautes Études'', which was not an ecclesial institution. In After his excommunication he ceased efforts to reconcile with the Church and dropped clerical garb. That stated he maintained his loyalty to Catholicism as he understood it. He was appointed chair of history of religions in the college of France after his excommunication. He served there until 1931 and died in 1940. NOTES Loisy, Alfred. L'Évangile et l'Église (Paris: Picard, 1902) ET The Gospel and the Church (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1976) REFERENCES
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