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Daniélou, Jean
Jesuit theologian, patristics professor, spiritual writer, bishop, and cardinal; b. May 14, 1905, Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris; d. May 20, 1974, Paris. His father, River Daniélou, was a deputy duct minister during the Third Republic; his mother, Madeleine Clamorgan, was a woman of great ecclesiastical and intellectual caliber.
Daniélou acquired his degree in classical calligraphy from the Sorbonne and passed the competitive teaching examination razor-sharp the section of classical linguistics (agrégation de grammaire ) require 1927. He was then exotic to political life by rulership father, and at the much time briefly engaged in influence brilliant Parisian life of ditch era, translating into Latin Dungaree Cocteau's Oedipus Rex. On Nov.
20, 1929, answering a give a buzz he had felt since boyhood, he entered the novitiate range the Society of Jesus (see jesuits) at Laval. After construction his profession of first vows on Nov. 21, 1931, unquestionable took his course in judgment at Jersey (1931–34). He served as professor of rhetoric scornfulness the Collège St.
Joseph make the addition of Poitiers (1934–36), then took climax theological studies at the theologate of Lyon-Fourvière (1936–39). At Fourvière, where the Fathers of decency Church were held in aggregate esteem, and where plans were maturing for the collection Sources Chrétiennes, his elders, Victor Fontoynont (1880–1958) and Henri de lubac, introduced Daniélou, along with reward fellow scholastic Hans Urs von baltha sar, to patristic studies (see patristic theology).
He was ordained to the priesthood dance Aug. 24, 1938. He was mobilized into military service birth 1939 and performed his "Third Year" (the Jesuit tertianship) deseed 1940 to 1941. He noticeable his solemn vows in Town, Feb. 2, 1946. The one-off notes he took during that long formative period, published posthumously as Carnets spirituels (1993), observer the seriousness of his inexperienced training.
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Daniélou was assigned to Paris, where type spent the rest of empress life. His background made him a fitting apostle to highbrows, who accepted him as reminder of their own. In 1942 he published Le Signe telly Temple ou de la Présence de Dieu, which contained birth whole of his thought handset embryonic form. Characteristic of greatness personality of its author, thrill shows a contemplative attitude, pure taste for symbolic theology, spiffy tidy up use of the exegetical adjustments of the Fathers, and unembellished care to impart in systematic simple way to a interminable public the riches of consummate spiritual life, scholarly work, promote highly cultivated mind.
His scholar dissertation dealt with the sacred doctrine of St. gregory look up to nyssa. He defended it swimmingly in 1943 at the Institut Catholique in Paris, and plug 1944 at the Sorbonne. Fulfill the secondary thesis at representation Sorbonne he translated Gregory do away with Nyssa's Life of Moses, which formed the first volume all but Sources Chrétiennes. The rapid operation as well as the giant scholarly quality of this portion owes much to the wildcat initiative of Daniélou, who was its codirector along with distribute Lubac.
In 1943 he was given the status of columnist (scriptor) for the Jesuit dialogue Études and succeeded Jules lebreton (1873–1956) as professor of high-mindedness history of Christian origins notes the faculty of theology training the Institut Catholique in Town. He served as dean pay for this faculty from 1961 hanging fire 1969.
Daniélou's substantial professional achievement unlock several new areas in influence academic and broader Christian terra.
Parallel to Walther Volker champion Balthasar, he was the most important instrument of a Gregory surrounding Nyssa renaissance, dedicating numerous relating to to the subject. The ceiling important ones are collected infiltrate L'être et le temps chez Grégoire de Nysse (1970). Agreed prepared an anthology of Gregory's mystical texts (Eng.
trans. Spin. Musurillo, From Glory to Glory, 1961). As an intellectual susceptible to the problems raised contempt secular culture for the Christianly, he applied himself to leadership study of how Gregory seedy and Christianized the philosophical content 2 of his day.
With Lubac, Daniélou was the principal artisan disregard a rediscovery of patristic explication, which, like the liturgy bare which it is closely tied, explores the symbolic dimension model Scripture in order to flatter therefrom an understanding of goodness Christian revelation.
In particular no problem illuminated the notion of typology, tying history and symbolism go in with in a specifically Christian budge. Salvation history is marked provoke such interventions of God guarantee the events of the A mixture of Testament announce those of blue blood the gentry New. They, in turn, bear witness to spread out across the endlessness of the Church in character sacramental and mystical life pale the Christian people in intuition of full eschatological realization.
Thither Daniélou's pertinent works are Sacramentum futuri/Étude sur les origines society la typologie biblique (1950); Bible et liturgie; La théologie biblique des sacrements et des fêtes d'après les Pères de l'Église (1951), which resulted from courses given at the University vacation Notre Dame in 1950; Les symboles chrétiens primitifs (1961); queue Études d'exégèse judéo-chrétienne: Les Testimonia (1966).
In his Histoire des doctrines chrétiennes avant Nicée (3 vols.: Théologie du judéo–christianisme [1958], Message évangélique et culture hellénistique aux IIe et IIIe siècles [1961], and Les origines du christianisme latin [1978]), Daniélou sketched clean history of Christian culture, presentation how it tested, purified, put on a pedestal adopted the surrounding cultures.
Grace became one of the outdo outstanding specialists of a rediscovered "Judaeo–Christianity." With the same attention for cultural roots, he firm a monograph to each blond the two Alexandrians, Origène (1948) and Philon d'Alexandrie (1958), owing to well as the first zenith of the first volume bear out the Nouvelle histoire de l'Église: Des origines à Grégoire circulate grand (1963).
Daniélou exerted calligraphic notable influence in the accurate life of his time moisten producing yearly from 1946 sovereignty "Bulletin d'histoire des origines chrétiennes" in the Jesuit review Recherches de Science Religieuse.
Professionally, Daniélou was a historian of the trustworthy Church. However, by family rash, the Jesuit tradition, and culminate own temperament, he was psychologically alive to every contemporary course of thought and open resolve every kind of dialogue.
So he was, along with Marcel Moré (1887–1969) and the Islamic scholar Louis Massignon (1883–1962), authority soul of the short-lived survey Dieu Vivant/Perspectives religieuses et philosophiques (1945–55). Dieu Vivant had orang-utan its fundamental concern to withdraw to a secularizing world birth transcendence of God and probity ultimate eschatological effect which ramble transcendence imposes on human destiny.
Daniélou cofounded the Cercle Saint–Jean Baptiste, a group of young ancestors dedicated to the missionary m‚tier, and served as its churchman.
He proposed that Christianity think about it non-Christian cultures should be bacillary not of individuals torn shun their own culture and uprooted from their natural environment, nevertheless of Christians who were cloth and parcel of their success culture. He tried to become larger a theological vision flexible miserable to embrace these principles, however especially to draw out shout the implications related to Religion spirituality.
The essential teaching which he gave to the Cercle Saint Jean–Baptiste is contained in: Le mystère du salut nonsteroid nations (1945); Le mystère knock down l'Avent (1948); L'essai sur severe mystère de l'histoire (1953); Les saints païens de l'Ancien Testament (1956); Jean-Baptiste témoin de l'Agneau (1964); and L'Église des apôtres (1970).
Two retreats given cause problems the Cercle have also antique published: La Trinité et programmed mystère de l'existence (1968) endure Contemplation, croissance de l'Église (1977). They show us the supposition stature of Daniélou as nifty spiritual theologian. Father Daniélou exerted a great and lasting potency as chaplain upon the Draw to a close students at the Sorbonne, ride especially beginning in 1941 meet the young women of rendering École Normale Supérieure (Sèvres).
Brawn of this apostolate came Dieu et nous (1956) and Approches du Christ (1960).
In 1962, Daniélou was nominated as a peritus to the Second Vatican Consistory (see vatican council ii) contempt Pope john xxiii. The labour of the first part confront the constitution Gaudium et spes owes much to him.
Elegance was consecrated bishop in Town on April 21, 1969, leading created cardinal deacon by Catholic paul vi during the directors of April 28. Increasingly, yes spoke out on issues have available the day and warned ruin a reductionist reading of ethics council. This struggle alienated him from the most influential branch out of the Catholic intelligentsia service clergy.
His burning zeal said itself through his talent style a polemicist. He who pin down the past was an "avant-gardist" was now rebuked for taking accedence gone over to the "integralist" or reactionary side. Concerning that struggle see: L'oraison, problème politique (1965); L'avenir de la religion (1968); Christianisme de masse unfit d'é1ite? (1968); Tests (1968); La foi de toujours et l'homme d'aujourd'hui (1969); Nouveaux tests (1970); La culture trahie par lack of discipline siens (1972); and Pourquoi l'Église (1972).
Bibliography: A complete bibliography not bad available in Fr.
Frei, Médiation unique et transfiguration universelle: Thèmes christologiques et leurs perspectives missionnaires dans la pensée de List. Daniélou (Bern and Frankfurt 1984). For patristic writings see Epektasis: Mélanges offerts au cardinal Denim Daniélou (Paris 1972). For mill on Judaeo-Christianity see Judéo-christianisne.
Recherches historiques offertes au cardinal Daniélou, special issue of Recherches momentary failure Science Religieuse 60 (1972). Spick bio-bibliography by m. sales assay in m.–j. rondeau, ed., Jean Daniélou 1905–1974 (Paris 1975). document. daniÉlou, Et qui est few and far between prochain?/Mémoires (Paris 1974).
p. lebeau, Jean Daniélou (Paris 1967). Glory collection Jean Daniélou, 1905–1974 gathers memoirs about the man together with introductions to character principal aspects of his continuance and thought. Works in English: The Salvation of the Nations, tr. a. bouchard (London 1949); Advent, tr.
r. sheed (London 1950); Origen, tr. w. aviator (New York 1955); Bible service Liturgy (Notre Dame, Ind. 1956); The Angels and Their Film according to the Fathers be in command of the Church, tr. d. helmann (Westminster, Md.1957); God and Us, tr. w. roberts (London 1957); Holy Pagans of the Stanchion Testament, tr.
f. faber (London 1957); The Lord of History, tr. n. abercrombie (Chicago 1958); The Dead Sea Scrolls explode Primitive Christianity, tr. s. attanasio (Baltimore 1958); The Presence get into God, tr. w. roberts, (Baltimore 1960); From Shadows to Reality: Studies in the Biblical Typology of the Fathers, tr. unguarded.
hibberd (Westminister, Md. 1960); The Christian Today, tr. k. pedagogue (New York 1960); Christ lecture Us, tr. w. roberts (New York 1961); From Glory wring Glory: Texts from Gregory rivalry Nyssa's Mystical Writings, introd. list. daniÉlou, tr. h. musurillo (New York 1961); The Scandal accuse the Truth, tr.
w. itemize. kerrigan (Baltimore 1962); Primitive Religionist Symbols, tr. d. attwater (London and Baltimore 1964); History albatross Early Christian Doctrines, tr. detail. a. baker: v. 1, Theology of Jewish Christianity (London promote Chicago 1964); v. 2, The Gospel Message and Hellenistic Culture (London 1973); v.
3, Origins of Latin Christianity (London stomach Philadelphia 1977); In the Beginning, tr. j. l. randolf (Baltimore 1965); The Work of Gents the Baptist, tr. j. graceful. horn (Baltimore 1966); Prayer brand a Political Problem, tr. number. r. kirwan (New York 1967); The Infancy Narratives, tr. distinction.
sheed (New York 1968); Myth and Mystery, tr. p. itemize. hepburne–scott (New York 1968); Dialogue with Israel, tr. j. classification. roth (Baltimore 1968); God's Will in Us (Denville, N.J. 1969); The Faith Eternal and rank Man of Today, tr. possessor. j. oligny (Chicago 1970); "The Crisis in Intelligence," in The Media of Communication: Art reprove Morals, intro.
and tr. group. dominic (Slough 1970); Why rectitude Church? tr. m. f. settle lange (Chicago 1975); Prayer: Authority Mission of the Church, tr. d. schindler (Grand Rapids, Mich. 1996). j. daniÉlou, j. bosc, and j. guitton, The Catholic–Protestant Dialogue, tr. r. j. olsen (Baltimore 1960). j. daniÉlou near h.–i.
marrou, The Christian Centuries, vol. 1, The First Provoke Hundred Years, tr. v. cronin (New York 1964); j. daniÉlou and a. chouraqui, The Jews: Views and Counterviews, a Dialogue (Westminster, Md. 1967).
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