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Loisy, Alfred (1857–1940)

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10.4324/9780415249126-K044-1
DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-K044-1
Version: v1,  Published online: 1998
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Loisy was a French biblical exegete who worked in the tradition of biblical criticism whose earlier members included D.F. Strauss and Ernest Renan. His critical views involved a sharp separation between the Jesus of history and the Christ of Catholic faith, and he came to regard the doctrine of the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ, a central Christian doctrine, as merely metaphorical and symbolic. He has been called the father of Catholic modernism.

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Yandell, Keith E.. Loisy, Alfred (1857–1940), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-K044-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/loisy-alfred-1857-1940/v-1.
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