Alfred Loisy

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Alfred Firmin Loisy (February 28 1857–June 11940) 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 Church's conservatives, 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 excommunicated.

Bibliography

• Autour d'un petit livre. Paris: A. Picard et fils, 1903.
• Evangile et l'Eglise (The Gospel and the Church). Bellevue: Chez l'auteur, 1903.
• Les évangiles synoptiques. Ceffonds: Loisy, 1907-1908.
• My Duel with the Vatican: the Autobiography of a Catholic Modernist. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1924.
• La naissance du Christianisme (The Birth of the Christian Religion). London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1948.
• Les origines du Nouveau Testament (The Origins of the New Testament). London: Allen and Unwin, 1950.
• La religion d'Israël (The Religion of Israel). London: Leipzig: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910.de:Alfred Loisy

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An Opinion From Alfred Loisy (this is a translation from the French Wikipedia[1])

The old swelling is before all a man that confesses itself, that confesses itself frequently, and so much more often even than it allows himself less the actions than the Catholic moral looks at as sins. This is a man that practices intellectual obedience, admitting as a rule all that the church sign, and accepting without examination all that it knows of this teaching; not discussing does or feel it or the logical reach of this that it believes; considering itself in the church as a disciple that learns from her this that it must think on all the big subjects that interest the existence, this Well, this that it must practice to be Christian. This a man of which all the activity is located thus regulated by an exterior authority, and that has not concern to think by himself, that would believe itself guilty to take this boldness, that looks at as a virtue the intellectual timidity. It defends himself to think on the religious questions, for fear of think poorly; it instructs himself religion in the vouchers deliver that recommends him his director, and it has not any other ideas that the one that are guaranteed for him as very orthodox and very sure. This type of Catholic exists, it does not be necessary to deny it. It very is not shed, all at least those that realize it in the perfection are not numerous, although one did to multiply them. This is that this not feasible type that to the price of an abdication against nature, to which a lot withstand as of instinct, and that of others push back consciemment as a violation of their personality.