Louis Bouyer

Louis Bouyer ( born February 17, 1913 in Paris, † 22 October 2004 in Paris) was a French Catholic theologian.

Life

Louis Bouyer came from a Protestant family. After a philological degree at the Sorbonne he studied theology, first at the Protestant Faculty of Paris, then at the of Strasbourg. In 1936 he was ordained as a Lutheran pastor and then took over until the Second World War, a vicar place in the Lutheran parish - Trinité in Paris. The study of Christology and ecclesiology of St.. Athanasius took him from 1939 to the Catholic Church.

After serving in the Abbey of Saint - wall groove ( Seine- Maritime) was received into the Catholic Church in 1944, he joined the Congregation of the Oratorian priest for the rest of his life. Until 1963 he was a professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris and then taught in England, Spain and the United States. In 1969 he wrote the book La Decomposition you catholicisme (Eng. The decline of Catholicism ), which showed the liturgical and doctrinal difficulties that experienced the church at that time.

Twice he was appointed by the Pope in the International Theological Commission and during the Second Vatican Council consultant for liturgy, the Liturgy Congregation and the Secretariat for Christian Unity. In 1999 he received the Cardinal Grente Prize of the Académie française for his life work. He died on 22 October 2004 in Paris, after suffering for several years from Alzheimer's disease. He is buried on the cemetery of the Abbey of the Order of Saint- wall groove.

Principles of thought Louis Bouyers

After he was at a young age under the influence of Oscar Cullmann and the form -historical school of exegesis itself Bouyer was open to scientific interpretation of Scripture and leaned pictorial or symbolic interpretations that can miss a clear justification in the text and thus his view of the arbitrariness open the door, chose from. As followers of the Bible movement, however, he placed great emphasis on the importance of tradition ( started by the Jewish right up to Christian ) for a proper understanding of Scripture.

In his ecclesiology, he was strongly influenced by the ecclesiological designs Johann Adam Mohler and John Henry Newman, also of thoughts of Russian Orthodox theologians such as Georgi Vasilyevich Florovsky.

During and after the Second Vatican Louis Bouyer occurred always for a "third way " beyond the camp battles between progressives and traditionalists, the rediscovery of a living tradition is owed ​​, which is entirely Catholic, but also at the same time ecumenically though. The theology of Louis Bouyers is mainly characterized by a historical and spiritual perception.

For the Catholic Church, he is now one of the richest, most fertile and most respected theologians, comparable with Henri de Lubac, Jean Daniélou and Hans Urs von Balthasar. The preoccupation with the thought Louis Bouyers can do much to help the message of the last Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. thoroughly to understand.

Publications ( French)

  • The Mystery of pascal, L' eucharistie
  • Le trône de la Sagesse,
  • Le fils éternel (Eng. The Word is the Son )
  • Le père invisible;
  • Le consolateur,
  • Cosmos: Le monde et la gloire de Dieu,
  • Gnosis: La connaissance de Dieu dans l' écriture,
  • Sophia ou le Monde en Dieu.
  • L' Église de Dieu (English: The Church - St. Benno - Verlag, Leipzig, 1984, 494 p. )
  • L' incarnation et l' Église corps du Christ.
  • Le rite et l' homme,
  • La vie de la liturgy,
  • Architecture and Liturgy (English architecture and liturgy).
  • You protestantisme à l' Église,
  • Newman sa vie sa spiritualité.
  • Religieux clercs et contre Dieu.
  • Vie de saint Antoine par saint Athanase,
  • La méditation contemplative,
  • Le sens de la vie monastique,
  • Le sens de la vie sacerdotale,
  • Figures mystiques féminines,
  • La connaissance spiritual chez Marie de l' incarnation,
  • Introduction à la vie spiritual (German: Introduction to Christian Spirituality - Matthias Grünewald Verl, Mainz 1965 - 295 p. .. )
  • La spiritualité de Citeaux,
  • Le quatrième Évangile (Eng. The Fourth Gospel ).
  • Autour d' Érasme,
  • La dignité et la vocation de la femme,
  • Mystère et ministères de la femme ( dt: Women and the Church ),
  • Les Écrits de pères apostoliques,
  • Le sens de la vie sacerdotale,
  • Humain ou chrétien,
  • La spiritualité du Nouveau Testament,
  • Le culte de la mère de Dieu dans l' Église catholique,
  • Saint Philippe Neri,
  • Initiation chrétienne,
  • L' initiation chrétienne.
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