Éditions du Cerf

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The Éditions du Cerf is a French publishing house based in Paris , the religious to the publication of literature is specialized and the Dominican Order is passed. The name of the publisher ( French : cerf = deer ) refers to Ps 42.2  EU : "As the deer thirsts for fresh water, so my soul, God, cries out to you."

history

The publishing house was founded in 1929 at the express request of Pope Pius XI. founded by Marie-Vincent Bernadot (1883–1941), a Dominican priest. He had founded the magazine La Vie Spirituelle as early as 1919 . In doing so, he pursued the goal of returning Christian spirituality to the true sources, the Holy Scriptures , the Church Fathers and the mystics of the Middle Ages. Together with intellectuals such as Jacques Maritain , he founded the magazine La Vie Intellectuelle in 1928 to counterbalance the nationalist movement Action française and Marxism .

The aim of the publishing house was "to judge the events in the unswerving light of a Christianity that does not submit to the zeitgeist, but lets the truth shine and lets the message of Christ sound against the obscuration through everyday life, the caution and lazy compromises". This is how the Éditions du Cerf came into being on October 11, 1929 in Juvisy-sur-Orge . In January 1937 the publishing house moved into the house of the Dominican Order in Paris.

literature

  • Étienne Fouilloux, Tangi Cavalin, Nathalie Viet-Depaule: Les éditions dominicaines du cerf, 1918–1965 . Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2018, ISBN 978-2-7535-5899-1 .

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Jon Kirwan: An avant-garde theological generation. The nouvelle théologie and the french crisis of modernity . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2018, ISBN 978-0-19-881922-6 , p. 157.
  2. ↑ Piero Viotto: Grandi amicizie: I Maritain ei loro contemporanei . Città nuova, Rome 2008, ISBN 978-88-311-7340-7 , p. 94.