
Résumé
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A French Oratorian whose influence marked the Catholic milieux of the 19th century, Alphonse Gratry, after a crisis of faith, returned to the Church when he was twenty. Accepted into the École Polytechnique, he nevertheless abandoned his scientific studies to study theology at Strasbourg. Welcomed into the brilliant group of Catholic intellectuals who gravitated around Father Louis Bautain and Mlle Humann, he was ordained a priest in 1832. Returning to Paris in 1841, he was first director of the Collège Stanislas, where he employed the young Frédéric Ozanam then chaplain of the École Normale Supérieure (1846-1851), where he had a considerable influence on the young Catholics. In 1852, with the assistance of two other priests - Father Pierre Pétetot, parish priest of Saint Roch in Paris, and Canon Hyacinthe de Valroger - he undertook to restore the Oratoire de France but soon fell out with his first fellow members and withdrew from the foundation. In 1861, he published 'Les Sources. Conseils pour la direction de l'esprit', a work which was undoubtedly one of the most widely read books on spirituality up till the Second World War. A professor of moral theology at the Sorbonne, he was elected to the Académie française in1867. Close to liberal Catholicism, as vicar-general to Mgr Dupanloup, the bishop of Orléans, he took a stance against papal infallibility in 1870, before publicly subjecting himself to the Council's decision. Reproved by his superior at the Oratory for being a member of the International League for Peace, then for his participation in the International Peace Congress in 1867, he left the Oratory in August1870 and died at Montreux (Switzerland) in 1872. Somewhat forgotten today, this philosopher who influenced Laberthonnière, but also social Catholics such as Marc Sangnier, Marius Gonin and Denys Cochin, and whose pacifist commitment inspired countless activists and intellectuals, merits closer investigation. An outsider or a trail-blazer? That is what the studies assembled here attempt to elucidate.
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Prat Olivier |
Collection | Histoire |
Parution | 05/11/2009 |
Format | 14.5 x 23.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 272g |
EAN13 | 9782204084857 |
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