Pierre Batiffol

Pierre Batiffol (born 27 January 1861 in Toulouse in France, died 13 January 1929 in Paris) was a prominent French catholic priest and Church historian, known particularly as a historian of dogma.

Batiffol studied from 1878 at the priest seminary Saint-Sulpice in Paris, was consecrated in 1884 and continued his studies at the Institut catholique in Paris and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes. He was learned by church historian Louis Marie Olivier Duchesne.

Under Giovanni Battista de Rossi in Rome, he studied from 1887 to 1889 the archaeology, research and liturgic antique Christian literature. From 1889 to 1898 and from 1907 until 1929, he lectured at Ecole Sainte-Barbe in Paris. Together with his friend Albert Marie Henri Lagrange, Batiffol founded in 1892 the magazine "Revue Biblique" for the historical-critical method of exegesis of the Old and New Testament. In 1899 he founded the "Bulletin de littérature ecclésiastique".

In 1898 he received the leadership of the Institut catholique de Toulouse, he paid attention for historical-critical theology. He used strict critical methods in church dogma and history as well as in manuscripts of the Holy Scripture. Because of its study on eucharist (1905), which was inserted on Index librorum prohibitorum, and his criticism of a number of legends, he lost his Chair after Encyklica of Pope Pius X Pascendi Dominici Gregis (8 September 1907). He was claimed a "modernist".

Batiffol examined Codex Beratinus, Beratinus II, Codex Curiensis, and several other manuscripts. He rediscovered and described Codex Vaticanus 2061 in 1887.

Works

• «Evangeliorum Codex Graecus Purpuraeus Beratinus», in: Mélanges d’archéologie et d’historie (École française de Rome) 5 (1885).
• Les manuscrits grecs de Berat d'Albanie et le Codex Purpureus Φ, Paris 1886.
• Didascalia 318 patrum pseudepigrapha, 1887.
• «Ungedruckte Papst- und Kaiserurkunden aus basilianischen Archiven», in: Römische Quartalschrift für christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte, 1888, s. 36
• Studia Patristica I. II, 1889/90
• La Vaticane de Paul IV à Paul V, 1890
• L'Abbaye de Rossano (doktoravhandling), 1891
• L'Histoire du bréviaire romain (Paris, 1893)
• Anciennes littératures chrétiennes: La littérature grecque, 1897
• Etudes d'histoire et de théologie positive, 1902
• L'Eucharistie, 1905
• L'Enseignement de Jésus (m. Alfred Loisy), 1905
• L'Avenir prochain du Catholicisme en France, 1907
• L'Eglise naissante et le catholicisme, 1908
• La paix constantinienne, 1914
• Leçons sur la messe, 1916
• Etudes de liturgie et d'archéologie chrétienne, 1919
• Le catholicisme de Saint Augustin, 2 bind, 1920
• Les Survivances du Culte Impérial Romain, à propos des rites shintoïstes (1920, sammen Louis Bréhier)
• Le Siège apostolique, 1924
• Saint Grégoire, 1925
• Catholicisme et papauté, 1926.
• Cathedra Petri: Études d'Histoire ancienne de l'Église (utgitt posthumt, 1938)

See also

• Modernism (Roman Catholicism)

Further reading

• A.-G. Martimort: «Mgr Pierre Batiffol et la liturgie», i Bulletin de littérature ecclésiastique 1995, vol. 96, no. 1, s. 5-18
• Rivière: Pierre Batiffol, (Bibliografi)
• L. Saltet: «Pierre Batiffol» i BLE 30, 1929, 7 ff. 49 ff. 126 ff.
• S. du Vauroux: «Pierre Batiffol», i Le Correspondant 316, Paris 1929
• Germain Morin: «Pierre Batiffol», i Hochland 26, 1928,29, 660 ff.
• P. Fernessole: Témoins de la pensée catholique en France sous la IIIe République, Paris 1940
• Bernard Joassart: «Mgr Pierre Batiffol et les Bollandistes. Correspondance», i Analecta Bollandiana, 114 (1996), s. 77-108.

External links

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1975). "Batiffol, Pierre". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 1. Hamm: Bautz. cols. 412–413. ISBN 3-88309-013-1.
• P. Batiffol, The Oldest Text of the Gospels, trans, E. S. Buchanan, (New York 1924).