André Gide (1869-1951)
André Gide was one of the most well-known writers of the first half of the XXth century. He was born into a protestant family and was brought up in an...
Process Theology
Process theology was influenced by the English philosopher and mathematician, Alfred Whitehead. It was Professor André Gounelle who made known this theology in France – according to which God is...
The Admiral Charles Baudin (1784-1854)
Charles Baudin had an excellent career in the Navy. He was a protestant with a deep personal faith and became the first president of the Central Council of Reformed Churches.
Laurent Angliviel de La Beaumelle (1726-1773)
La Beaumelle was a French man of letters and a contemporary of Voltaire. He considered tolerance to be an essential constituent of Christianity.
The Protestant Theology Faculties today
The protestant theology faculties in France are independent institutions of higher education awarding their own diplomas. Strasbourg is a case apart and is still bound by the Concordat agreement between...
The Protestant Institute of Theology
The Protestant Institute of Theology, which was founded in 1972, is made up of two protestant theology faculties, Paris and Montpellier. Its main role is to prepare for the ministry...
The Independent Evangelical Theological Faculty of Vaux-sur-Seine
The Vaux-sur-Seine Faculty has trained pastors since the late XIXth century. It became an independent institution of further education in 1965. It is a training centre of future pastors in the...
The Bible Institute of Nogent
The Bible Institut of Nogent was founded in 1921 to train evangelists, missionaries and more recently, social workers. There are students of all nationalities who later go on to serve...
Claude Brousson (1647-1698)
Avocat, défenseur de la cause protestante, Claude Brousson, qui s’est réfugié à Genève en 1683, revient en France en tant que « prédicant » dans les Cévennes. Il contribue à la création...
Liberation Theology
Emerging at the end of the 1960s, in Catholic circles in Latin America, Liberation theologies developed widely. They denounced the oppression of which the poor were victims. These injustices had...
Feminist Theologies
Feminist theologies are grounded in the great movement for women’s rights born around 50 years ago in the USA, in order to reassess their place both in society and in...
Catechism in the Reformed Church
Catechism refers to religious education given to teenagers or adults by the Church to teach them the fundamental elements of faith.
Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)
Jacques Ellul was a protestant academic from Bordeaux with a deep faith who sought to destroy conformity in all its aspects. He achieved notoriety through the many articles he had...
Mémoire et patrimoine en Normandie
Cette région comprend les départements de la Seine-Maritime (76), de l’Eure (27), du Calvados (14), de l’Orne (61) et de la Manche (50). Tant en Basse-Normandie qu’en Haute-Normandie, les vestiges...
Charles Munch (1891-1968)
Charles Munch was a great French conductor.
Protestantism in Germany
The Lutheran Reformation movement was a crucial event in German history. This theological and religious revolution had a major effect on German politics, language and culture. Today Germany has several...
Protestantism in Belgium
Although the Low Countries and Belgium (which was in fact part of the latter for several centuries) had shared a common history in the past, the consequences of the events...
Protestantism in Italy and Spain
There was fierce opposition to the Reform Movement, so it never really took a permanent hold in these two countries. The Jesuits in Italy, and especially the Spanish Inquisition, were...
The Thirty Year War (1618-1648)
The Thirty Year War, fought over both religious and political issues, devastated Germany in the XVIIth century. At the beginning it was a religious conflict between the Protestant princes and...