Louis Auguste Sabatier
Louis Auguste Sabatier (French: [sabatje]; October 22, 1839 – April 12, 1901),[1] French Protestant theologian, was born at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardèche, in the Cévennes. He was educated at the Protestant theological faculty of Montauban as well as at the universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg.[1]
After holding the pastorate at Aubenas in Ardèche from 1864 to 1868, he was appointed professor of reformed dogmatics in the theological faculty of Strasbourg.[1] His markedly French sympathies during the war of 1870 led to his expulsion from Strassburg in 1872.[1] After five years' effort he succeeded in establishing a Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris, L'Ecole de Paris (today: Institut de théologie protestante de Paris) along with Eugène Ménégoz and became professor and then dean.[1] In 1886 he became a teacher in the newly founded religious science department of the École des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne.[1]
His brother, Paul, was a noted theological historian.[1]
Published works
Among Louis Auguste Sabatier's chief works were:
- The Apostle Paul (3rd edition, 1896)
- Mémoire sur la notion hébraique de l'Esprit (1879)
- Les Origines littéraires de l'Apocalypse (1888)
- The Vitality of Christian Dogmas and their Power of Evolution (1890)
- Religion and Modern Culture (1897)
- Historical Evolution of the Doctrine of the Atonement (1903)
- Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion (1897)
- Religions of Authority and the Religion of the Spirit (1904, posthumous), to which his colleague Jean Réville prefixed a short memoir.
These works show Sabatier as "at once an accomplished dialectician and a mystic in the best sense of the word."[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
"Sabatier, Louis Auguste". Encyclopædia Britannica. 23 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 958.
- On his theology
- Eugène Ménégoz in Expository Times, xv.30
- G. B. Stevens in Hibbert Journal (April 1903)
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sabatier, Louis Auguste". Encyclopædia Britannica. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 958.