See also:NOEL See also:ALEXANDRE (NATALIS See also:ALEXANDER) (1639-1724)
, See also:French theologian and ecclesiastical historian, was See also:born at See also:Rouen on the 19th of See also:January 1639
.
In his 15th See also:year he joined the See also:Dominicans, and shortly after his ordination was appointed See also:professor of See also:philosophy at the See also:convent of See also:Saint-Jacques in See also:Paris
.
The success of his subsequent lectures at the See also:Sorbonne led to his selection by See also:Colbert as See also:tutor to his son, Jacques See also:Nicolas Colbert, afterwards See also:archbishop of Rouen
.
See also:Alexandre obtained the degree of See also:doctor in divinity from the Sorbonne in 1675 and for twelve years taught philosophy, See also:theology and ecclesiastical See also:law to the members of the Saint-Jacques community
.
He played a prominent See also:part in ecclesiastical affairs and preached several times before See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV., who granted him an See also:annual See also:pension of 800 livres, and in the See also:general assemblies of the French bishops
.
He became provincial of his See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order in 1706, but was banished to See also:Chatellerault in 1709 for having subscribed to the Cas de See also:conscience (1703), and was deprived of his pension in 1713 on See also:account of his opposition to the See also:bull Unigenitus
.
He died in Paris on the 21st of See also:August 1724, having lost his sight some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time before owing to his strenuous See also:literary activity
.
His numerous See also:works are still much valued by ecclesiastical students
.
His best-known See also:work, the Selecta historiae ecclesiasticae capita, et in loco ejusdem insignia dissertationes historicae, chronologicae, dogmaticae (26 vols., Paris, 1676-1686), was placed on the See also:Index by See also:Innocent XI., on account of his bold See also:defence of the Gallican claims
.
In 1689 he brought out at Paris his See also:history of the Old Testament: Selecta historiae Veteris Testamenti capita, &c., in 6 vols
.
Of the numerous See also:editions of Alexandre's ecclesiastical history the best is that of P
.
J
.
D
.
Mansi, which contains many valuable notes and additions (11 vols., See also:Lucca, 1749) and has been frequently reprinted
.
Alexandre's See also:principal contribution to theological literature is his Theologia dogmatica et moralis secundum ordinem catechismi concilii Tridentini (to vols., Paris, 1694), in which he clearly shows himself a See also:disciple of the Thomist school
.
His Conformite See also:des ceremonies chinoises avec l'idoldtrie grecque et romaine and See also:Sept lettres sur See also:les ceremonies de la Chine (both published at See also:Cologne in 1700) are interesting as they See also:mark him out as a See also:pioneer in the study of See also:comparative See also:religion
.
See See also:Catalogue complet des suvres du Pere Alexandre (Paris, 1716) ; Quetif-Echard, Scriptores ordinis praedicatorum (Paris, 1719-1721), t. n. p
.
810; and full bibliography in A
.
Vacant, See also:Diet. de theologse (scholarly See also:article by P
.
Mandounet, cols
.
769-772)
.
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