Andrรฉ Manaranche | |
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| Born | 8 January 1927 |
| Died | 12 April 2020 (agedย 93) Lille, France |
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Andrรฉ Manaranche (French pronunciation: [ษฬdสe manaสษฬส]; 8 January 1927 โ 12 April 2020) was a French priest, theologian, and spiritual writer.
Biography
editBorn into a peasant family from Auvergne who moved into the Paris suburbs, Manaranche felt called to the priesthood early on. He began his studies at a seminary in Versailles and was ordained on 29 June 1951. He was then sent to the Institut Catholique de Paris for higher studies, and defended a thesis titled Communautรฉ et sociรฉtรฉ dans l'Eglise, inspired by the works of Ernst Troeltsch.
In 1960, Manaranche entered the Jesuit Novitiate in Saint-Martin-d'Ablois, and then earned his master's degree in theology at the Facultรฉ de Fourviรจre, inspiring him to write Quel salutย ? That same year, he published Y a-t-il une รฉthique sociale-chrรฉtienneย ? The work questioned whether one could get into the Kingdom of God based merely on morals.[1] This inspired Henri Desroche to write that this could lead to a non-atheist society.
Manaranche then turned to dogmatic theology, and escaped from Western European culture.[2] He stayed in many French-speaking African countries, such as Senegal, Niger, Benin, Burundi, Rwanda, Madagascar, Rรฉunion, Mauritius, Morocco, and Algeria. He then returned to France at the Sรฉminaire de Paray-le-Monial.[3]
In 1986, Edmond Barbotin, French religious adviser to the International Union of Guides and Scouts of Europe, entrusted Manaranche with the chaplaincy of the Rover Scouts. He aided the annual pilgrimage to Vรฉzelay, where he would attend All Saints' Day. He stayed in this position for ten years.
Due to his many religious works, linguist Bernard Pottier expressed the importance of Manaranche's books.[4]
Andrรฉ Manaranche died on 12 April 2020 in Lille at the age of 93 due to COVID-19.[5]
Publications
edit- L'Homme dans son univers (1966)
- Prรชtres ร la maniรจre des apรดtres (1967)
- Je crois en Jรฉsus-Christ aujourd'hui (1968)
- Y a-t-il une รฉthique sociale chrรฉtienneย ? (1969)
- Quel salutย ? (1969)
- Franc-parler pour notre temps (1970)
- Un chemin de libertรฉ (1971)
- Dieu vivant et vrai (1972)
- L'Existence chrรฉtienne (1973)
- L'Esprit et la Femme (1974)
- Ceci est mon corps (1975)
- Celui qui vient (1976)
- L'Esprit de la loi (1977)
- Attitudes chrรฉtiennes en politique (1978)
- Les Raisons de l'espรฉrance (1979)
- Des noms pour Dieu (1980)
- Le Prรชtre, ce prophรจte (1982)
- Pour nous les hommes, la Rรฉdemption (1984)
- Le monothรฉisme chrรฉtien (1985)
- Un amour nommรฉ Jรฉsus (1986)
- Rue de l'Evangile (1987)
- Premiers pas dans l'amour (1988)
- En sรฉparant le sable et l'eauโฆ La crรฉation (1990)
- Adam, oรน es-tuย ? (1991)
- J'aime mon รglise (1992)
- Grรขce ร Dieu (1993)
- Vouloir et former des prรชtres (1994)
- Croyances ou Rรฉvรฉlation (1996)
- Tiens la route (1997)
- Questions de Jeunes (1998)
- Jacques Sevin, une identitรฉ (1999)
- Dรฉclin ou sursaut de la Foi (2002)
- Jacques Fesch. Du non-sens ร la tendresse (2003)
- Dieu en Europe (2003)
- Prรชtre. Genรจse d'une rรฉflexion (2009)
- Preface to Les yeux de la foi by Pierre Rousselot (2010)[6]
References
edit- ^ Manaranche, Andrรฉ (1969). Y a-t-il une รฉthique sociale-chrรฉtienne? (in French).
- ^ "Pรจre ANDRร MANARANCHE thรฉologien". Prophetes et Mystiques (in French).
- ^ "The Charism of the Society of Saint John-Marie Vianney". Des Prรชtes pour la Mission (in French).
- ^ "Les yeux de la foi aprรจs Vatican II" (PDF). Nouvelle revue thรฉologique (in French). 1984.
- ^ "ยซย Dรฉcรจs du Pรจre Andrรฉ Manaranche". Aleteia (in French). 12 April 2020.
- ^ "Andrรฉ Manaranche Bibliographie". jesuites.com (in French). Archived from the original on 18 June 2016.
