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Bossuet, the Church and the Protestants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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Towards the middle of the seventeenth century, it began to seem that the differences between Protestant and Catholic in France might soon be settled, and that the great division between Christians, little more than a century old, could be healed. That hope faded, but the Bishop of Meaux was one of those who, having caught it in his student days, never entirely lost it, and whose work for re-union, which made him the greatest Christian peacemaker in Europe, remains as a point of departure for all those who set the same hope before them today.

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Research Article
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Copyright © 1956 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 Paris, Les Editions du Cerf, 1953.

2 Louis XIV et les Protestants. Paris, 1951, p. 33. A most valuable book for any student of ecumenical history and technique.

3 Edited by Miss R. Rouse and Bishop Stephen Neill. S.P.C.K., 1954.