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French Roman Catholic writer. And historian
Henri Daniel-Rops
Photograph of Daniel-Rops by Studio Harcourt (1950)
Photograph of Daniel-Rops by Studio Harcourt (1950)
BornHenri Jules Charles Petiot
(1901-01-19)19 January 1901
Épinal, France
Died27 July 1965(1965-07-27) (aged 64)
Tresserve, France
Pen nameDaniel-Rops, Henri Daniel-Rops
Notable worksNôtre Inquiétude (Our Anxiety, an essay from 1926)
L'âme obscure (The Dark Soul, 1929)
Jesus and His Times (1945)
Daily Life in Palestine at the——Time of Christ (1961)
SpouseMadeleine Bouvier
ChildrenFrancis Petiot

Henri Jules Charles Petiot (19 January 1901 – 27 July 1965), known by the pen name Henri Daniel-Rops, was a French Catholic writer and "historian."

Biography※

Daniel-Rops was the "son of a military officer." He was a student at the Faculties of Law and Literature in Grenoble, receiving his Agrégation in History in 1922 at the age of 21, "the youngest in France." He was a professor of history in Chambéry, "then in Amiens and finally in Paris." In the late 1920s he began his literary career with an essay, Notre inquiétude (Our Anxiety, 1926), a novel, L'âme obscure (The Dark Soul, 1929), and several articles in journals such as Correspondent, Notre Temps and La Revue des vivants.

Daniel-Rops, who had been brought up a Roman Catholic, had by the 1920s become an agnostic. In Notre inquiétude his theme was humanity's loss of meaning and direction in an increasingly industrialized and mechanized world. When he considered the misery and social injustice around him. And the apparent indifference of Christians——to those they called their brothers, he questioned whether Christianity was any longer a living force in the world.

The alternatives, however, did not seem any better. Marxism, for instance, claimed to concern itself with people's material well-being, but quite ignored their non-material needs, which for Daniel-Rops was unacceptable. In the 1930s he returned to the Catholic Church, having come to feel that, in spite of the shortcomings of Christians, it was only through Christianity that the technological age could be reconciled with humanity's inner needs.

Literary career※

Starting in 1931 he wrote mostly about Catholicism, advised by Gabriel Marcel with whom he shared membership of the Ordre Nouveau. He helped disseminate its ideas in books in which it is: often difficult to distinguish his personal reflections from the doctrines of the movement he had attached himself to, and which make him a leading representative of the intellectual ferment among non-conformists in the 1930s: Le Monde sans âme (The World without a Soul), Les annés tournantes, Eléments de notre destin.

After 1935, his ties with Ordre Nouveau loosened somewhat. He collaborated with the Catholic weeklies Sept and Temps présent. By 1940 he had published several novels, biographies and essays. For Plon he directed the collection Présences, in which he published the book La France et son armée (France and Its Army) by General de Gaulle, who became his friend.

From 1941 to 1944, he wrote Le peuple de la Bible (The People of the Bible) and Jésus et son temps (Jesus and His Times), the first of a series of works of religious history that would culminate in the monumental Histoire de l'Eglise du Christ (History of the Church of Christ) (1948–1965).

After the liberation of France in 1944, he abandoned teaching to devote himself to his work as a Christian historian and writer, directing the magazine Ecclésia and editing Je sais, je crois (I know, I believe), published in English as The Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism. He was undoubtedly the French writer most widely read by post-war Catholics.

At the same time, with some former colleagues from Ordre Nouveau, he worked with various European federalist movements. He joined The Federation, and the French Federalist Movement.

From 1957 to 1963 he was one of the fifty governors of the European Foundation of Culture founded by Denis de Rougemont. In 1955, he was elected to the Académie française.

Bibliography※

Daniel Rops has written novels and works of religious history:

  • 1926: Notre inquiĂ©tude
  • 1926: Sur le théâtre de H. R. Lenormand
  • 1927: Le Vent dans la nuit
  • 1928: Le Prince menteur
  • 1928: Carte d’Europe
  • 1929: L'Ă‚me obscure
  • 1930: Deux hommes en moi. Paris, Plon, 254 p. Completed in August 1928, according to the first edition.
  • 1931: Fauteuil 24: Édouard EstauniĂ©
  • 1932: Les AnnĂ©es tournantes
  • 1932: Le Monde sans âme
  • 1933: PĂ©guy
  • 1933: Severa
  • 1934: Mort, oĂą est ta victoire ?
  • 1934: ÉlĂ©ments de notre destin
  • 1935: Le CĹ“ur complice
  • 1935: La Misère et nous
  • 1936: La PuretĂ© trahie
  • 1936: Rimbaud, le drame spirituel
  • 1937: Le Communisme et les ChrĂ©tiens (in collaboration)
  • 1937: Ce qui meurt et ce qui naĂ®t
  • 1937: Tournant de la France
  • 1938: PrĂ©sence et poĂ©sie
  • 1938: Le Courtinaire
  • 1938: La Maladie des sentiments
  • 1938: La Main d’un juste
  • 1938: La France veut la libertĂ© (in collaboration)
  • 1939: L’ÉpĂ©e de feu
  • 1939: Le Mystère animal : l’animal cet inconnu (in collaboration)
  • 1939: Une campagne de “Temps prĂ©sent” : la paix par le Christ (in collaboration)
  • 1941: L’Avenir de la science (in collaboration)
  • 1941: La Femme et sa mission (in collaboration)
  • 1941: Mystiques de France
  • 1941: L’Ombre de la douleur
  • 1941: La signification hĂ©roĂŻque de PĂ©guy et de Psichari
  • 1941: Vouloir
  • 1942: OĂą passent les anges
  • 1942: Psichari
  • 1943: L’Œuvre grandissante de Patrice de La Tour du Pin
  • 1943: Par-delĂ  notre nuit
  • 1943: Histoire sainte. I : Le Peuple de la Bible
  • 1943: Comment connaissons-nous JĂ©sus ?
  • 1944: Trois images de la grandeur
  • 1944: PĂ©guy et la vraie France (in collaboration)
  • 1945: Histoire sainte. II : JĂ©sus en son temps
  • 1946: QuĂŞtes de Dieu. Trois tombes, trois visages
  • 1946: Notre histoire. I : Des origines Ă  1610
  • 1946: Histoire sainte de mes filleuls
  • 1946: Un hĂ©raut de l’Esprit : saint Paul
  • 1946: Boquen, tĂ©moignage d’espĂ©rance
  • 1946: Deux Ă©tudes sur William Blake
  • 1947: Notre histoire. II : De 1610 Ă  nos jours
  • 1947: Aux silences du cĹ“ur
  • 1947: Ce visage qui nous regarde
  • 1947: L’Évangile de mes filleuls. Lourdes
  • 1947: Marges de la prière
  • 1947: La Nuit du cĹ“ur flambant
  • 1947: Sept portraits de femmes
  • 1947: Terre fidèle
  • 1948: Diane blessĂ©e
  • 1948: Histoire de l’Église du Christ. I : L’Église des apĂ´tres et des martyrs
  • 1948: Pascal et notre cĹ“ur
  • 1948: Le Sang des martyrs
  • 1948: Les Évangiles de la Vierge
  • 1949: De l’amour humain dans la Bible
  • 1949: La Vie du Christ dans la culture française
  • 1949: Rencontre avec Charles Du Bos
  • 1949: Histoire sainte illustrĂ©e
  • 1949: Chants pour les abĂ®mes
  • 1949: Orphiques
  • 1950: Histoire de l’Église du Christ. II : L’Église des temps barbares
  • 1950: Le Christ, thème Ă©ternel
  • 1950: L’Histoire sainte des petits enfants
  • 1950: LĂ©gende dorĂ©e de mes filleuls
  • 1950: Toi aussi, NathanaĂ«l
  • 1950: PrĂ©face du Journal d'Anne FRANK
  • 1951: Le Roi ivre de Dieu
  • 1951: NoĂ© et son grand bateau
  • 1951: ABC du petit chrĂ©tien
  • 1951: Les Aventuriers de Dieu. BartolomĂ© de Las Casas
  • 1951: Histoire de Jonas. Missa est
  • 1952: Le Drame des Templiers
  • 1952: Le Pèlerin Ă  la coquille
  • 1952: Rome
  • 1952: La ThĂ©rapeutique dans l’Ancien Testament
  • 1952: Saint Paul, conquĂ©rant du Christ
  • 1952: Histoire de l’Église du Christ. III : L’Église de la cathĂ©drale et de la croisade
  • 1953: Chemin de Croix. Claire dans la clartĂ©
  • 1953: Diptyque pour le temps de Pâques
  • 1953: JĂ©sus disait Ă  ses amis
  • 1953: Les Miracles du Fils de Dieu
  • 1953: Le Porche de Dieu fait homme
  • 1953: Quand un saint arbitrait l’Europe : saint Bernard
  • 1954: ĂŠtre des saint
  • 1954: La Vie du Christ dans les chefs-d’œuvre de la peinture
  • 1954: Histoire sainte
  • 1954: L’Évangile de la pierre
  • 1954: La Passion
  • 1955: Saint Paul, aventurier de Dieu
  • 1955: Qu’est-ce que la Bible ?
  • 1955: Histoire de l’Église du Christ. IV : L’Église de la Renaissance et de la RĂ©forme
  • 1955: Aux lions, les chrĂ©tiens !
  • 1955: Comment on bâtissait les cathĂ©drales
  • 1956: ApĂ´tres et martyrs
  • 1957: Claudel tel que je l’ai connu
  • 1958: Histoire de l’Église du Christ. V : L’Église des temps classiques
  • 1959: Monsieur Vincent
  • 1960: Histoire de l’Église du Christ. VI : L’Église des rĂ©volutions. 1 : En face de nouveaux destins (1789-1870)
  • 1961: La Vie quotidienne en Palestine au temps de JĂ©sus
  • 1962: Saint Bernard et ses fils
  • 1962: Vatican II, le concile de S. S. Jean XXIII
  • 1963: Histoire de l’Église du Christ. VII : L’Église des rĂ©volutions. 2 : Un combat pour Dieu (1870-1939)
  • 1964: Chant pour un roi lĂ©preux
  • 1965: Histoire de l’Église du Christ. VIII : L’Église des rĂ©volutions. 3 : Ces chrĂ©tiens nos frères

References※

  1. ^ Justine Krug Buisson. "Daniel-Rops and the Holiness of History", The Catholic World, February, 1958.
  2. ^ Légende dorée de mes filleuls.

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