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See also:SCHERER, EDMOND See also:HENRI ADOLPHE (1815-1889) , See also:French theologian, critic and politician, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 8th of See also:April 1815. After a course of legal studies he spent several years in theological study at See also:Strassburg, where he graduated See also:doctor in See also:theology in 1843, and was ordained. In 1843 he was appointed to a professorship in the Ecole Evangelique at See also:Geneva, but the development of his opinions in favour of the Liberal See also:movement in See also:Protestant theology led to his resigning the See also:post six years later. He founded the See also:Anti-Jesuite, afterwards the See also:Reformation an XIXe siecle, in which he advocated the separation of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church from the See also:State; but he gradually abandoned Protestant See also:doctrine. In thought he became a pronounced Hegelian. Eventually he settled in Paris, where he at once attracted See also:attention by brilliant See also:literary criticisms, at first chiefly on See also:great See also:foreign writers, contributed to the Revue See also:des deux mondes. He was elected municipal councillor at See also:Versailles in 187o, See also:deputy to the See also:National See also:Assembly for the See also:department of See also:Seine-et-See also:Oise in 1871 and senator in 1875. He supported the Republican party. Towards the end of his See also:life he devoted himself mainly to literary and See also:general See also:criticism, and was for many years one of the ablest contributors to Le Temps. He was a frequent visitor to See also:England, and took a lively See also:interest in See also:English politics and literature. He died at Versailles on the 16th of See also:March 1889.
His See also:chief See also:works are: Dogmatique de l'Eglise reformee (1843), De l'etat actuel de l'E°glise reformee en See also:France (1844), Esquisse dune theorie de l'Eglise chretienne (1845), La Critique et la foi (1850), See also:Alexandre See also:Vinet (1853), Lettres a mon cure (1853), Etudes critiques sur la litterature contemporaine (1863–1889), Etudes critiques de litterature (1876), See also:Diderot (188o), La Democratie et la France (1883), Etudes sur la litterature au X VIII' siecle (1891).
A memoir of him, by V. C. O. Greard, appeared in 189o. See also an See also:article by See also:Professor E. See also:Dowden in the Fortnightly See also:Review (April 1889).
End of Article: SCHERER, EDMOND HENRI ADOLPHE (1815-1889)
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