Alfred Loisy
Alfred Loisy
Alfred Firmin Loisywas a French Roman Catholic priest, professor and theologian generally credited as a founder of Biblical Modernism in the Roman Catholic Church. He was a critic of traditional views of the biblical creation, and argued that biblical criticism could be applied to interpreting Sacred Scripture. His theological positions brought him into conflict with the Church's conservatives, including Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius X. In 1893, he was dismissed as a professor from the Institut Catholique de Paris...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth28 February 1857
CountryFrance
Alfred Loisy quotes about
Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.
It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.