About Daniel-Rops
Lived 1901 – 1965 (aged 64). Daniel-Rops was a French church historian, historian, writer, novelist, university teacher and poet.
Henri Jules Charles Petiot (19 January 1901 – 27 July 1965), known by the pen name Henri Daniel-Rops, was a French Catholic writer and historian.
Biography Daniel-Rops was the son of a military officer. He was a student at the Faculties of Law and Literature in Grenoble, receiving his Agrégation in History in 1922 at the age of 21, the youngest in France. He was a professor of history in Chambéry, then in Amiens and finally in Paris. In the late 1920s he began his literary career with an essay, Notre inquiétude (Our Anxiety, 1926), a novel, L'âme obscure (The Dark Soul, 1929), and several articles in journals such as Correspondent, Notre Temps and La Revue des vivants.
Daniel-Rops, who had been brought up a Roman Catholic, had by the 1920s become an agnostic. In Notre inquiétude his theme was humanity's loss of meaning and direction in an increasingly industrialized and mechanized world. When he considered the misery and social injustice around him, and the apparent indifference of Christians to those they called their brothers, he questioned whether Christianity was any longer a living force in the world.
The alternatives, however, did not seem any better. Marxism, for instance, claimed to concern itself with people's material well-being, but quite ignored their non-material needs, which for Daniel-Rops was unacceptable. In the 1930s he returned to the Catholic Church, having come to feel that, in spite of the shortcomings of Christians, it was only through Christianity that the technological age could be reconciled with humanity's inner needs. 1950: Toi aussi, Nathanaël 1950: Préface du Journal d'Anne FRANK 1951: Le Roi ivre de Dieu 1951: Noé et son grand bateau 1951: ABC du petit chrétien 1951: Les Aventuriers de Dieu. Bartolomé de Las Casas 1951: Histoire de Jonas. Missa est 1952: Le Drame des Templiers 1952: Le Pèlerin à la coquille 1952: Rome 1952: La Thérapeutique dans l’Ancien Testament 1952: Saint Paul, conquérant du Christ 1952: Histoire de l’Église du Christ. III : L’Église de la cathédrale et de la croisade 1953: Chemin de Croix. Claire dans la clarté 1953: Diptyque pour le temps de Pâques 1953: Jésus disait à ses amis 1953: Les Miracles du Fils de Dieu 1953: Le Porche de Dieu fait homme 1953: Quand un saint arbitrait l’Europe : saint Bernard 1954: Être des saint 1954: La Vie du Christ dans les chefs-d’œuvre de la peinture 1954: Histoire sainte 1954: L’Évangile de la pierre 1954: La Passion 1955: Saint Paul, aventurier de Dieu 1955: Qu’est-ce que la Bible ? 1955: Histoire de l’Église du Christ. IV : L’Église de la Renaissance et de la Réforme 1955: Aux lions, les chrétiens ! 1955: Comment on bâtissait les cathédrales 1956: Apôtres et martyrs 1957: Claudel tel que je l’ai connu 1958: Histoire de l’Église du Christ. V : L’Église des temps classiques 1959: Monsieur Vincent 1960: Histoire de l’Église du Christ. VI : L’Église des révolutions. 1 : En face de nouveaux destins (1789-1870) 1961: La Vie quotidienne en Palestine au temps de Jésus 1962: Saint Bernard et ses fils 1962: Vatican II, le concile de S. S. Jean XXIII 1963: Histoire de l’Église du Christ. VII : L’Église des révolutions. 2 : Un combat pour Dieu (1870-1939) 1964: Chant pour un roi lépreux 1965: Histoire de l’Église du Christ. VIII : L’Église des révolutions. 3 : Ces chrétiens nos frères
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Who was Daniel-Rops?
French writer, historian and essayist (1901–1965)
When was Daniel-Rops born?
Daniel-Rops was born on 19 January 1901 in Épinal.
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Daniel-Rops died on 27 July 1965 in Tresserve.
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Daniel-Rops was a church historian, historian, writer, novelist, university teacher and poet.
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Daniel-Rops was French.
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