biography
| name: |
Loisy, Alfred Firmin
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pronunciation:
[lwazee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1857–1940)
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| biography:
| Theologian, born in Ambrières, NEC France, the founder of the Modernist movement. He was ordained priest in 1879, and in 1881 became professor of Holy Scripture at the Institut Catholique in Paris, where his Modernist theories incurred the disfavour of the Church and he was dismissed in 1893. In 1900 he was appointed lecturer at the Sorbonne, but resigned after his biblical criticisms were condemned by Pope Pius X in 1903. His controversial books included L'Evangile et l'Eglise (1902, The Gospel and the Church), and for subsequent works of the same kind he was excommunicated in 1908. He was professor of History of Religion in the Collège de France (1909–32). Other works include Quatrième Evangile (1903), and Autour d'un petit livre (1903). |
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