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Jean Le Clerc, also Johannes Clericus (March 19, 1657 – January 8, 1736), was a Genevan theologian and biblical scholar. He was famous for promoting exegesis , or critical interpretation of the Bible , and was a radical of his age.
Jean Leclercq OSB (31 January 1911 – 27 October 1993), was a French Benedictine monk, the author of classic studies on Lectio Divina and the history of inter-monastic dialogue, as well as the life and theology of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
Auguste Lecerf (1872–1943), pastor, neo-Calvinist theologian, specialist on the thought of Jean Calvin, member of Association Sully, a now-defunct Protestant royalist movement. Key work: An Introduction to Reformed Dogmatics. [580] [581] Jean Le Clerc (1657–1736), theologian, journalist and man of letters. [582]
Jean Leclerc (1657–1736) Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) Johann Jakob Wettstein (1693–1754) John Gill (1697–1771) 18th century. Nicolas Ludwig Count von ...
Jean Le Clerc, in his 1685 work Sentimens de quelques théologiens de Hollande, controverted the views of Simon acutely, and claimed that an uninformed reader might take Simon to be any of a Calvinist, Jew or crypto-Spinozan; Bossuet made a point of banning this also, as even more harmful than Simon's book. [25]
Jean Le Clerc (c.1440–1510), French official who wrote two chronicles about the life of his longstanding patron Antoine de Chabannes Jean LeClerc (painter) (c.1585–1633), French painter Jean Le Clerc (theologian) (1657–1736), biblical scholar and encyclopaedist
Jakob Thomasius, Jean Le Clerc and Pierre Bayle found the neostoicism of Lipsius a serious distortion of the Greek Stoics, with imposed spirituality and neoplatonism. It was deemed a selective use of sources. [63] [64]
Though after 1680 he led a quiet and retired life, he was recognized widely by the scholars of his time, such as Thomasius and Bayle, Jean Le Clerc and Walch, as a man of great learning; and his zealous participation in the cause of Antoinette Bourignon did not injure his good name as a devout mystic and an honorable man.