Contribution to Book
“Lagrange, Marie-Joseph (1855-1938),”
The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization
(2011)
Abstract
Marie‐Joseph Lagrange was born Albert Lagrange in Bourg‐en‐Bresse, France on March 7, 1855. He died on March 10, 1938. He became a Dominican and was ordained a Catholic priest. He studied numerous ancient languages, philosophy, theology, and the Bible. In 1880, because of anticlerical matters in France, Lagrange and many of his fellow Dominicans were exiled to Spain. In 1890 Lagrange founded the École biblique, the famous Dominican biblical school in Jerusalem. As head of the École biblique, Lagrange also founded and edited the international biblical journal, Revue biblique. He was later caught up in the Catholic controversies during the Modernist crisis when, in 1907, Pope St. Pius X issued his encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis which condemned what the Pope labeled Modernism. This was the official beginning of the Modernist crisis. It officially ended after Vatican II, when, in 1965, the …
Keywords
- Marie-Joseph Lagrange
Publication Date
2011
Editor
George Thomas Kurian
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN
9781405157629
Citation Information
Jeffrey Morrow. "“Lagrange, Marie-Joseph (1855-1938),”" OxfordThe Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization Vol. 2 (2011) p. 1291 - 1293 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey-morrow/49/