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Raoul Allier

Raoul Allier ( in 1862 - 1 939 ) is a pastor Protestant , Professor of Theology and Philosophy (PhD) originating Gard. He influenced the liberal conception of the law of separation of Church and State in 1905. It is also a great Dreyfus.

Summary

Biography

Born in Paris , he is from Vauvert (near Nmes in the Gard ). Alumnus of the Ecole Normale Superieure , a professor of Philosophy in 1885 , he was appointed professor of philosophy at the college of Montauban and a few months later, a lecturer at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the city. Then in 1889 , he is a lecturer at the Faculty of Theology of Paris , where he became owner in 1902 (thesis on the cabal of the devout) and Dean in 1920.

Commitments

  • Social Christianity

Marked by the personality and preaching Christian Social Tommy Fallot , he participates in the Aid Society fraternal and social studies that he founded and which lead to the great movement of social Christianity.

  • Student Christian

He is a founder and first president of the French Federation of Student Christian and developing the outreach of the Protestant Student Association of Paris (Rue Vaugirard) which he chaired from 1920.

  • Dreyfus Affair

Convinced of the innocence of Captain Dreyfus , he published a study on transparent Voltaire and Calas , then a series of articles in the newspaper The Age. This deeply patriotic Reform established contacts beneficial both to the left with members of the League of Human Rights , on the right with members of the Catholic Committee for the Defence of law.

  • Separation of Church and State in 1905

In preparing the law of separation of church and state , he campaigned ardently in The Century , with parliamentarians and advises Aristide Briand for a liberal conception of the new organization, that is to say, for a separation complete and final of Church and State.

  • Freedom of religion in Madagascar

Steering Committee member of the Evangelical Missionary Society of Paris, he forcefully defended in the same newspaper freedom of worship threatened in Madagascar by the policy of secularization led by the Governor General, Jean-Victor Augagneur and directed especially against the Protestant missions.

  • WWI

The First World War , during which he lost his eldest son killed in the month of August 1914 , affected him deeply and he joins the fight against the "defeatism" by a large activity lay preacher and lecturer. The eighty-one Conferences war, patriot and believer, Raoul Allier decide Tuesday on Tuesday in the four largest temples of Paris have a major impact.

  • Foreign students and exchange takes

Became Dean of the Faculty of Theology of Paris in 1920 , he adopted an ambitious policy of welcoming foreign students and contacts with students from Central and Eastern Europe.

Publications

  • Voltaire and Calas, a miscarriage of justice in the eighteenth century (PV Stock, 1898 )
  • The troubles of China and the Christian missions (Fischbacher, 1901 )
  • The cabal of the devout, 1627-1666 (A. Colin, 1902 )
  • "The primary native to Madagascar," Journal of the fortnight, November 8, 1904.
  • "Freedom of conscience in Madagascar", The Age, October 20 to November 10, 1907.
  • Protestantism in Japan (1859-1907) (F. Alcan, 1908 ).
  • The vexations of freedom of conscience and worship in Madagascar, Nimes, October 27, 1909, 23 p.
  • Protestant anthology (2 vols., C. Crs and Co., 1920 )
  • The Psychology of conversion among non-civilized ( 1925 )
  • The Non-civilized, and We, irreducible difference or identity property? ( 1927 )
  • Magic and Religion ( 1935 ). He denounced as degrading the role of magic in different cultures and religion.
  • The lessons of the hour, his collection of lectures delivered between 1914 and 1917.

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