François Guizot et le protestantisme français sous le Second Empire
François Guizot was a fervent Protestant. On the intellectual scene, he served as an apologist for the Protestant faith. Three examples of his apologistic work include his Calvin biography (1822), his Discours sur l’histoire de la révolution d’Angleterre (1850), and…
Marc Boegner biographe de Tommy Fallot : quelques remarques
Marc Boegner devoted two books to his uncle Tommy Fallot, a pioneer in the Christian social movement in France. This article first sheds light on the method Boegner used to depict his ‘spiritual father,’ namely the use a plethora of…
Dogme et morale dans la prédication selon le pasteur Athanase Coquerel
Athanase Coquerel (1795-1868), who served as pastor in Paris from 1830 until his death, was a leading representative of French Protestant liberalism in the first half of the nineteenth century. A renowned preacher whose sermons were greatly appreciated, Coquerel in…
Luther vu par Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné dans l’Histoire de la Réformation du seizième siècle
The five volumes of J.-H. Merle d’Aubigné’s Histoire de la Réformation du seizième siècle, published between 1835 and 1853, were an enormous success in the French- and English-speaking worlds. They present Luther’s religious life as the Reformation’s basic driving force—an…