Flashcards: French theologians

Philippe le Chancelier, also known as "Philippus Cancellarius Parisiensis" (Philip, Chancellor of Paris) (c 1160–December 26, 1236) was a French theologian, Latin lyric poet, and possibly a composer as well.

Walter of St Victor (d. c. 1180) was a mystic philosopher and theologian, and an Augustinian canon of Paris.

Job of Telmessos (born Igor Wladimir Getcha, Russian: Игорь Владимирович Геча; January 31, 1974 in Montreal, Canada) is an Eastern Orthodox Archbishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate who was elected to lead the Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe in November 2013.

François Vatable (late 15th century – 16 March 1547) was a French humanist scholar, a Hellenist and Hebraist.

Étienne Chauvin (18 April 1640 – 6 April 1725), French Protestant divine, was born in Nîmes.

Jacques Basnage De Beauval (8 August 1653 – 22 December 1723) was a celebrated French Protestant divine, preacher, linguist, writer and man of affairs.

Frédéric Auguste Lichtenberger (born in Strassburg in 1832; died 1899) was a French theologian.

Dominique Bouhours (15 May 1628 – 27 May 1702) was a French Jesuit priest, essayist, grammarian, and neo-classical critic.

Pierre de Bérulle, Cong.

Marc Boegner, commonly known as pasteur Boegner (French: [pastœʁ bœɲe]; 21 February 1881 – 18 December 1970), was a theologist, influential pastor, notable member of the French Resistance, and a French essayist, and a notable voice in the ecumenical movement.

David Martin (September 7, 1639 – September 9, 1721), a learned French Protestant theologian, was born at Revel, in the diocese of Lavaur.

Denis Amelot, Cong.

Jacques Goar (1601 – 23 September 1653) was a French Dominican and Hellenist.

Pierre Charron (French pronunciation: ​[pjɛʁ ʃaʁɔ̃]; 1541 – 16 November 1603) was a French 16th-century Catholic theologian and philosopher, and a disciple and contemporary of Michel Montaigne.

Jean Crespin (c.1520 – 12 April 1572) was a French Protestant lawyer who became a significant printer and martyrologist in Geneva.

Louis Auguste Sabatier (French: [sabatje]; October 22, 1839 – April 12, 1901), French Protestant theologian, was born at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardèche, in the Cévennes.

Albert Schweitzer, OM (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a French-German theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician.

Jean Guitton (August 18, 1901 – March 21, 1999) was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian.

Pasquier Quesnel (14 July 1634 – 2 December 1719) was a French Jansenist theologian.

Frédéric Desmons (1832 in Brignon, Gard – 1910) was a French Calvinist priest and freemason who persuaded the Grand Orient de France in a vote to remove the term of the Great Architect of the Universe from their Constitution.

Berengar of Tours (c. 999 – 6 January 1088) was a French 11th century Christian theologian and Archdeacon of Angers, a scholar whose leadership of the cathedral school at Chartres set an example of intellectual inquiry through the revived tools of dialectic that was soon followed at cathedral schools of Laon and Paris, and who disputed with the Church leadership over the doctrine of transubstantiation in the Eucharist.

Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel (7 August 1795 – 1868) was a French Protestant theologian, born in Paris, elected deputy of the Constituent Assembly after the revolution of February 1848.

François Combefis (or Combefisius) (November 1605 – 23 March 1679) was a French Dominican patrologist.

Pierre Poiret Naudé (15 April, 1646 – 21 May, 1719) was a prominent 17th century French mystic and Christian philosopher.

Antoine Arnauld (February 6, 1612 – August 8, 1694) — le Grand as contemporaries called him, to distinguish him from his father — was a French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician.

Dom Jean Mabillon, O.

Charles-Louis Richard (April 1711 – 16 August 1794) was a Catholic theologian and publicist.

Albert Réville (November 4, 1826, Dieppe, Seine-Maritime – October 25, 1906) was a distinguished French Protestant theologian, known for his 'extremist' liberal views.

Isaac La Peyrère, or Pererius, (1596–1676) was a French Millenarian theologian and formulator of Pre-Adamite hypothesis.

Claude Pajon (1626 – September 27, 1685) was a 17th-century French theologian.

René Rapin (1621–1687) was a French Jesuit and writer.

Robert de Sorbon (October 9, 1201 – August 15, 1274) was a French theologian, the chaplain of Louis IX of France, and founder of the Sorbonne college in Paris.

Jean de Launoy (Joannes Launoius) (21 December 1603 – 10 March 1678) was a French historian.

Laurent Bordelon (1653, Bourges – 6 April 1730, Paris), was an 17th/18th-century French abbott, doctor in theology, playwright, polygraph and progressive utopian.

Ambroise Janvier (1613, Sainte-Osmane – 25 April 1682, Saint-Germain-des-Prés) was an 17th-century French Benedictine and theologian.