Pierre Rousselot

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Pierre Rousselot (born December 29, 1878 in Nantes , † April 25, 1915 at Éparges (fallen)) was a French Jesuit , philosopher and theologian .

Life

Rousselot entered the Society of Jesus in 1895 and studied philosophy and theology in Canterbury . In 1908 he was ordained a priest and received his doctorate in philosophy at the Sorbonne. From 1909 until he was drafted into military service during the First World War (1914) he was Professor of Dogmatics at the Institut Catholique in Paris . He fell at Éparges in 1915.

Philosophical-theological approach

Rousselot's philosophy and theology is based on Thomas Aquinas and, based on Maurice Blondel, determines the relationship between nature and grace . The revelatory act of God must be countered by a capacity for knowledge that Rousselot regards as supernaturally exalted. "The various" signs "in which the revelation appears open up access to the reality of revelation and make consent to the revelation appear justified and responsible. But this so-called recognition of credibility only occurs when revelation, that is, God's call to direct community, is approved. Knowledge of credibility and consent to belief thus form an inseparable unit; they are two different aspects of one and the same act, the act of faith. "

In the German-speaking area, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Rahner von Rousselot in particular were influenced.

Works

  • L'Intellectualism de Saint Thomas. Paris 1908, 3rd edition 1936, online resource (Ed. A. Raffelt, Freiburg University Library).
  • Les Yeux de la foi. (1910) (German: The eyes of faith. With an introduction by Josef Trütsch. Translated from the French by Albert Mantel and Hans Urs von Balthasar. Einsiedeln: Johannes 1963)

literature

  • David Berger :  ROUSSELOT, Pierre. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 1165-1169.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Erhard Kunz: Faith, grace, history: Pierre Rousselot's theology of faith. Frankfurt am Main: Knecht 1969
  • Erhard Kunz: Knowledge of credibility and belief (analysis fidei). In: Walter Kern u. a. (Ed.): Handbook of Fundamental Theology. Vol. 4. Freiburg im Breisgau a. a .: Herder 1988, pp. 414-449; here esp. 425-430 ( inclusion of more recent approaches: Pierre Rousselot's analysis of faith )
  • Erhard Kunz: Les yeux de la foi. In: Michael Eckert u. a. (Ed.): Lexicon of theological works. Stuttgart: Kröner 2003, ISBN 3-520-49301-2 , pp. 815-816
  • Albert Raffelt : Rousselot, Pierre. In: LThK 3 , Vol. 8, Spp. 1333-1334
  • P. Justinus C. Pech: Pierre Rousselot (1878-1915) - Intellect and Faith , in: ders./Cornelius Keppeler (ed.), Influential, but forgotten? Theological thinkers from the first half of the 20th century , Heiligenkreuz 2016, 37–59.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kunz 1988, p. 427
personal data
SURNAME Rousselot, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Jesuit, philosopher, theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Nantes
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1915
Place of death at Éparges