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PRESSENSE, EDMOND DEHAULT DE (1824—1891)

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PRESSENSE, EDMOND DEHAULT DE (1824—1891) , See also:French See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 7th of See also:January 1824. He studied at See also:Lausanne under See also:Alexander See also:Vinet, and at See also:Halle and See also:Berlin under F. A. G. See also:Tholuck and J. A. W. See also:Neander, and in 1847 became pastor in the Evangelical See also:Free See also:Church at the See also:chapel of Taitbout in Paris. He was a powerful preacher and a See also:good See also:political See also:speaker; from 1871 he was a member of the See also:National See also:Assembly, and from 1883 a senator. In 1890 he was elected a member of the See also:Academy of Sciences. Pressense laboured for the revival of biblical studies. He contended that the Evangelical Church ought to be See also:independent of the See also:power of the See also:state.

He died on the 8th of_April 1891. He founded in 1854 the Revue chretienne, and in 1866 the Bulletin theologique. His See also:

works include: Histoire See also:des trois premiers' siecles de l'eglise chretienne (6 vols. 1856—1877; new ed. 1887—1889), L'Eglise et la revolution francaise (1864; 3rd ed., 1889), Jesus-See also:Christ, son temps, sa See also:vie, son ceuvre (against E. See also:Renan, 1866; 7th ed. 1884), See also:Les Origines, le probleme de la connaissance; le probleme cosmologique (1883; 2nd ed. 1887). See T. Roussel, See also:Notice sur la vie et les oeuvres de Pressense (1894).

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