Alfred Loisy

Theologian

1857-02-28 – 1940-06-01

Alfred Loisy was a French Catholic priest and theologian associated with modernist biblical criticism. His work challenged traditional Catholic interpretations and became central to modernist debates in the Church. He was born on February 28, 1857, and died on June 1, 1940.

Quotes by Alfred Loisy

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
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