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Joseph Turmel

1859 – 1943

French priest and church historian

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Lived 1859 – 1943 (aged 83). Joseph Turmel was a French theologian, catholic theologian, church historian, catholic priest, university teacher and writer.

Joseph Turmel (13 December 1859 Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) – February 1943) was a French Catholic priest, historian of Christian dogmas, who was excommunicated.

Biography Joseph Turmel was born on 13 December 1859, in Rennes, 142, rue de Saint-Malo. He studied at the seminaries of Rennes and Angers.

Studies and priestly activity From 1876 to 1880, he studied philosophy and theology at the Major Seminary of the Archdiocese of Rennes, and he continued until 1882 his studies at the Faculty of Theology of University of Angers.

Modernism and excommunication He was excommunicated for Modernism as a vitandus.

He is sometimes referred to as patristician.

Works Under his name

Histoire de l'angéologie, des temps apostoliques à la fin du ve siècle, Revue d'histoire et de littérature religieuses, 3, 1898. Histoire du dogme du péché originel, Macon, Protat, 1904. Tertullien, Bloud, 1905 Histoire de la théologie positive, du Concile de Trente au Concile du Vatican, Paris, Beauchesne, 1906. vol. I vol. II Histoire du dogme de la papauté, des origines jusqu'à la fin du IVe siècle, Paris, Picard, 1908. Histoire du diable, Paris, Rieder, 1931. Histoire des dogmes, Rieder, 1931–1937, 6 vol., 3151 p. vol. I : Le péché originel. La rédemption, 1931, 464 p. vol. II : La Trinité. L'Incarnation. La Vierge Marie, 1932, 529 p. vol. III : La papauté, 1933, 498 p. vol. IV : Le créationisme, les anges. La vie d'outre-tombe. Canon et inspiration des Écritures. La grâce sanctifiante, 1935, 485 p. vol. V : La grâce actuelle, les sacrements en général, le baptême, la confirmation, l'eucharistie, le mariage, 569 p. vol. VI : La pénitence, la confession, l'extrême-onction. L'ordre. Conclusion, 1937, 547 p. Comment j'ai donné congé aux dogmes, Éd. de L'Idée libre, Bibliothèque du libre penseur, Herblay, 1935. Reissue under the title En Soutane. Mémoires, Éd. des Malassis, 2016. La Bible expliquée, Herblay, Éd. de L'Idée libre, 1936. Réfutation du catéchisme, Herblay, Idée libre, 1937. Comment l'Église romaine m'a donné congé, Herblay, 1937. Reissue under the title En Soutane. Mémoires, Ed. des Malassis, 2016. Les Religions, Herblay, Idée libre, 1938. Le suaire de Turin, suivi d'un « Courte histoire du faux suaire de Cadouin », Éd. de l’Idée libre, Bibliothèque du libre penseur, Herblay, 1938. Dieu, Herblay, Éd. de L'Idée libre, Bibliothèque du libre penseur, 1940.

Works under pseudonyms:

Antoine Dupin, Le dogme de la Trinité dans les trois premiers siècles, Paris, 1907. Guillaume Herzog, La Sainte Vierge dans l'histoire. Paris, Nourry, 1908. Henri Delafosse, Le quatrième Évangile, Rieder, 1925 Henri Delafosse, Les écrits de saint Paul, Paris, Rieder, 1926–1928, 4 vol. vol. I : L'épître aux Romains vol. II : La première épître aux Corinthiens vol. III : La seconde épître aux Corinthiens vol. IV : L'épître aux Philippiens Louis Coulange, La messe, Rieder, 1927 Armand Dulac (= Joseph Turmel) and Albert Houtin, Courte histoire du célibat ecclésiastique, Rieder, 1929 Louis Coulange, Catéchisme pour adultes, Rieder, 1929–1930 vol. I : Les dogmes vol. II : Les institutions

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Who was Joseph Turmel?

French priest and church historian (1859-1943)

When was Joseph Turmel born?

Joseph Turmel was born on 13 December 1859 in Rennes.

When did Joseph Turmel die?

Joseph Turmel died on 5 February 1943 in Rennes.

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Joseph Turmel was a theologian, catholic theologian, church historian, catholic priest, university teacher and writer.

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Joseph Turmel was French.

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· Wikipedia: Joseph Turmel

· Wikidata: Q1231143

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