Guy Bedouelle

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Guy Bedouelle OP (religious name: Guy-Thomas ; born April 6, 1940 in Lisieux ; † May 22, 2012 in Freiburg im Üechtland , Switzerland ) was a French Dominican and church historian .

Career

After graduating from high school in Paris in 1957, Guy Bedouelle studied at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and obtained its diploma in 1961. In 1962 he was admitted to the prestigious École nationale d'administration (ENA), but he gave up this career after just a few months. From 1962 to 1964 he was part of the Corps des Commissariat de la Marine . In 1965 he joined the Dominican Order .

In 1966 he was in Paris with a dissertation on the Church of England in its relation to the political society of Britain to Dr. iur. (in the subject of public law). In the same year he began his studies at the religious college Le Saulchoir in Étiolles near Paris, where he graduated in 1968 as a licentiate in philosophy and in 1972, a year after his ordination, as a lecturer and licensed student of theology. Also in 1972 he was at the Sorbonne in Paris with a dissertation on the biblical hermeneutics of the French humanist Lefevre d'Etaples to Dr. phil. (in the subject of the history of religion). A third doctorate ( Dr. theol. ) Followed in 1977.

From 1972 to 1996 he was professor of church history at the École de la Foi in Friborg, Switzerland , and since 1974 assistant at the theological faculty of the University of Friborg (Switzerland) , where he has been an associate professor since 1977 and a full professor since 1982 for church history worked.

Bedouelle was also responsible from 1981 to 1984 as rain for the studies in the order province of France of his order. In 1993 he was Visiting Professor at Thomas University in Manila and in 1994 Visiting Fellow at All Souls College in Oxford. After serving as dean of his Freiburg faculty from 1994 to 1996, in addition to the duties of his chair in Freiburg, he also took over the management of the Center d'études du Saulchoir in the Saint-Jacques convent in Paris in 1997 , where his former religious school Le Saulchoir is now located and had been converted into a non-faculty study center. In 2007, after retiring from Freiburg, he moved to Angers , where he was rector of the Université Catholique de l'Ouest until his health-related resignation in 2011 . During this time, in November 2008, he was awarded the honorary title of Sacrae Theologiae Magister (STM) by his order in recognition of his services to the sciences and the church . After returning from Angers to Switzerland, he succumbed to cancer on May 22, 2012 in the Albertinum monastery of his order in Friborg, Switzerland.

Memberships and editorships

Bedouelle was a member of the French editorial committee of the journal Communio (since 1975), member of the scientific management of the Associazione di Manuali de teologia cattolica (AMATECA), which is responsible for the publication of theological handbooks , editor-in-chief of the religious history journal Mémoire dominicaine , editor of several scientific book series ( Studia Friburgensia: Series Historica , Histoire du christianisme ), member of the Milan Accademia di San Carlo Borromeo (since 1978), President of the Paris Association pour l'histoire de l'Ordre de Saint-Dominique en Europe (until 2000), also member of the papal historical theological commission for the anniversary year 2000 and chairman of the scientific commission for doctoral theology studies in Romance Switzerland (since 2001).

Fonts (selection)

  • Dominic. From the power of the word . Verlag Styria, Graz 1984, ISBN 3-222-11513-3 .
  • The history of the church . Bonifatius, Paderborn 2000, ISBN 3-87088-878-4 .
  • Great illustrated church history. People - subjects - pictures . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2005, ISBN 3-451-28559-2 .
  • Ut filii qui nascentur non ignorent primordia et progressus. Guy-Thomas Bedouelle et l'histoire dominicaine . Éditions du Cerf, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-204-10105-9 (collection of essays on the history of his order; therein: Bibliographie dominicaine de Guy-Thomas Bedouelle , pp. 13-18).

literature

  • Mariano Delgado : Guy Thomas Bedouelle OP (1940–2012) in memoriam . In: Anuario de historia de la Iglesia , ISSN 1133-0104, vol. 22 (2013), pp. 452-453.
  • Gregor Patt: Bedouelle, Guy . In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon , Volume 36. Nordhausen 2015, ISBN 978-3-88309-920-0 , Sp. 128-132.

Footnotes

  1. ^ A b c Gregor Patt: Bedouelle, Guy . In: BBKL , Vol. 36, Col. 128–132, here Col. 128.
  2. ^ A b Gregor Patt: Bedouelle, Guy . In: BBKL , Vol. 36, Col. 128–132, here Col. 129.

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personal data
SURNAME Bedouelle, guy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bedouelle OP, Guy Thomas; Bedouelle, G.-T .; Bedouelle, Guy Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French religious, theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisieux , France
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 2012
Place of death Freiburg im Üechtland , Switzerland