Henri Brémond
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Henri Brémond (31 July 1865 – 17 August 1933) was a French literary scholar, sometime Jesuit, and Catholic philosopher, one of the theological modernists.
Biography
He was born and educated in Aix-en-Provence. He served his novitiate in Sidmouth, Devon, and received orders in 1892. He then taught for two years, and worked on the Jesuit publication Études.
He left the Society of Jesus in 1904, but remained a priest, suspended for his presence and an address he gave at the funeral of the modernist, George Tyrrell (1909), of whom he was a friend. Brémond made a sign of the cross over Tyrrell's grave, for which he was temporarily suspended a divinis by Bishop Amigo for some time[1] but later reintegrated. He wrote for the Annales de philosophie chrétienne, Correspondant, Revue des deux mondes and the Revue de Paris. He also became a prolific author of books on literary topics and Catholicism. Brémond's magnum opus was his Histoire littéraire du sentiment religieux en France (cited below). He had a permanent interest in English topics, e. g. public schools (Thring of Uppingham), the evolution of Anglican clergy (Walter Lake, J. R. Green) and wrote a study of the psychology of John Henry Newman (1906) (well before Geoffrey Faber's attempt).
In 1912, Sainte Chantal was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.[2]
He became a member of the Académie française succeeding Louis Duchesne, being elected in 1923 to the seat number 36. He was also awarded the Légion d'honneur. He died in Arthez-d'Asson.
Bibliography
- L'Inquiétude religieuse. Aubes et lendemains de conversion (1901)
- Âmes religieuses (1902)
- L'enfant et la vie (1902)
- Le Bienheureux Thomas More 1478-1535 (1904) as Sir Thomas More (1913) translated by Henry Child
- Le charme d'Athènes et autres essais (1905) with Jean and André Bremond
- Newman, essai de biographie psychologique (1906) and translations from J. H. Newman, as The Mystery of Newman (1907) translated by H. C. Corrance
- Gerbet (1907)
- La Littérature religieuse d'avant-hier et d'aujourd'hui (1908)
- La Provence mystique au XVIIe siècle: Antoine Yvan et Madeleine Martin (1908)
- Nicole (1909)
- L’évolution du clergé anglican (1909)
- Apologie pour Fénelon (1910),
- Sainte Chantal (1572-1641) (1912)
- Textes choisis de Bossuet (1913)
- Histoire littéraire du sentiment religieux en France depuis la fin des guerres de religion jusqu'à nos jours (from 1916 to 1936) 11 volumes, as A Literary History of Religious Thought in France (1928) translated by K. L. Montgomery
- Anthologie des écrivains catholiques, prosateurs français du XVIIème siècle (1919) with Charles Grolleau
- Revue dominicaine (1920)
- Pour le Romantisme (1923)
- Les deux musiques de la prose (1924)
- Maurice Barrès (1924)
- Le roman et l'histoire d'une conversion. Ulric Guttinguer et Sainte-Beuve (1925)
- Manuel illustré de la littérature catholique en France de 1870 à nos jours (1925) with others
- Entretiens avec Paul Valéry (1926) with Frédéric Lefevre
- Sainte Catherine d’Alexandrie (1926)
- La Poésie pure; Un débat sur la poésie. La poésie et les poètes (1926) with Robert de Souza
- Prière et Poésie (1926) as Prayer and Poetry: A Contribution To Poetical Theory (1927) translated by Algar Thorold
- Introduction à la philosophie de la prière (1928)
- L'Abbé Tempête: Armand de Rancé, Réformateur de la Trappe (1929) as The Thundering Abbot (1930) translated by F. J. Sheed
- Divertissements devant l'arche (1930)
- Racine et Valéry. Notes sur l'initiation poétique (1930)
- Un clerc qui n’a pas trahi: Alfred Loisy d'après ses mémoires (1931)
- La querelle du pur amour au temps de Louis XIII. Antoine Sirmond et Jean-Pierre Camus (1932)
- Autour de l'humanisme d'Érasme à Pascal (1936)
- Correspondance (1970) letters to Maurice Blondel, edited by André Blanchet, Aubier, two volumes
