Name Auguste Lecerf | Role Author | |
Books An Introduction to Reformed Dogmatics | ||
Auguste Lecerf (1872–1943) was a pastor of the Église réformée de France (Reformed Church of France) and a partly autodidact neo-Calvinist theologian. From 1927 onwards, he was dogmatics professor at the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris. Specialist in Calvin, he authored several books and articles on Reformed dogmatics.
Biography
Auguste Lecerf was born in London on 18 Septembre 1872 from communards parents who had sought refuge in England at the end of the Paris Commune. He converted to Protestantism after reading the New Testament, and to Calvinism after reading Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. His subsequent theological work is much influenced by Herman Bavinck and Dutch Neo-Calvinism.
In France and French-speaking Switzerland, Auguste Lecerf's teaching and writing succeeds in creating a whole new Calvinist movement withint Protestantism. With his friend pastor Jacques Pannier, Auguste Lecerf launched the Calvinistic Society of France and he was the first editor of its Bulletin.
Among his most influential followers are:
Auguste Lecerf's work was translated in other languages, chiefly in English and didn't go unnoticed in Americain Reformed circles.
Among his chief works are: