Tommy Fallot
Tommy Fallot ( one thousand eight hundred and forty-four - 1 904 ) is a pastor Protestant. It will be the initiator of the great movement of " social Christianity ".
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Great-grand-son of the politician and industrial Swiss Jean-Luc Legrand son and grandson of Daniel Legrand , he was born in Ban de la Roche in Alsace where it is very sensitive to the early influence of men of faith conscious of social problems related to industrialization and the emergence of the proletariat.
It begins in 1871 studied theology at Strasbourg in a faculty become German , whose intellectualism disappoints somewhat, and ended his life by supporting university in 1872 , his thesis on The Poor and the Gospel, thus showing the good guidance he intends to give to his ministry.
After four years as pastor of Wildersbach near the Ban de la Roche, he left the Lutheran Church, and accepts a position as pastor of the Free Church of Chapel North (Boulevard de la Villette), one of the city Most popular in Paris.
Here he comes in contact with the work of evangelization of the Reverend Robert Mac All , English pastor, host of "moral lectures" designed to provide the poorest of the Gospel message.
The success of these meetings is to bring events initiated by the clock large movement of faith that runs through the nineteenth century most European countries.
Fallot at the request of Mac All, is in charge of the Station of La Villette which will for almost 5 years with his ministry at the chapel of the North, the center of its activity. But he quickly sees the greatest danger of this attempt a little feverish of evangelization which, in its gradual separation of church and theological issues, contributes to the divisions of Protestantism.
From 1882 , Fallot, in addition to his pastoral ministry, will focus on the defense of public morality and in particular the problem of prostitution.
His concern for more and greater problems for the people pushing Fallot to adhere to the ideas of socialism , even if immediately condemned the excesses of revolutionary socialism.
This rejection of Fallot pushes socialism to found the Circle of freethinking socialist Christian, became in 1882 , the Fraternal Aid Society and social studies, leading to the great movement of social Christianity , project both critical and utopian to make a Christian solution to social issues.
Meanwhile in Nmes is constituted "the School of Nimes , around the economist Charles Gide , uncle of Andr Gide. It seeks a third way between capitalism and socialism. It is the origin of the cooperative movement: cooperative production and consumption. It focuses on solidarity.
The echo of these innovations to take Fallot eminent men like Dean Raoul Allier and pastors such as Charles Wagner , Wilfred Monod, Elie Gounelle, but it also stands against him a fringe conservative and bourgeois Protestantism.
In 1890 , Fallot, reached in his health by 12 years of intense activity and the disappointed little response encountered socialist ideas in Protestantism, where institutional conflicts between orthodox and liberals are strong and demand to find a single parish campaign.
It was at Holy Cross then Aouste near Crest in the Drome , he spent the last 10 years of his life, a true evangelist of local people.
It is also in the many writings of this period, he will show how much he cared for Ecumenism long before the word is pronounced and the need for unification of the various currents within the Reformed Churches (Protestant).
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