Jacques Le Fèvre

Jacques Le Fèvre (b. at Lisieux towards the middle of the seventeenth century; d. 1 July 1716, in Paris) was a French Roman Catholic theologian and controversialist.

Life

He became archdeacon of Lisieux and vicar-general of the Archbishopric of Bourges. In 1674 he received a doctorate in theology from the Sorbonne.

Works

His works are the following:

(Paris, 1674). The first of these dialogues was condemned and burned. (Paris, 1682), in which Le Fèvre endeavours to show that there is fundamental agreement between Catholic and Protestant teachings, the differences being of slight importance and mostly verbal. These conciliatory views were attacked by Antoine Arnauld, and, in answer, Le Fèvre wrote (1685).

Amongst Le Fèvre's other works are

(Paris, 1685) (Paris, 1686) (Paris, 1686) (Cologne, 1700). These letters were published anonymously when the work of the Jesuit Father Louis le Comte, "Mémoires sur la Chine", was referred to the faculty of theology.

To Father Jacques-Philippe Lallemant, who had defended his confrère in the , Le Fèvre replied in his ; and he also produced , the first volume of which was printed at Rouen without date about 1680; it was seized and destroyed, and the other volumes were not published.