Augustine's time.Ī more formidable enemy appeared in Bossuet, who, during a public thesis at the Collège de Navarre in 1692, condemned Dupin's audacity. In reality similar ideas had been professed by many before St. Having discovered Semipelagianism in this author's works, Petit-Didier concluded that Macarius should come after Pelagius and St. Macarius the Egyptian in the 4th century, to which indeed he rightly belongs. Petit-Didier's observations often seem inspired by prejudices of his time. Dupin answered him in his fifth volume and Petit-Didier responded in the opening part of his second volume of Remarques. Du Pin (Paris, 1691), and this was followed by two other volumes to which the author's name was appended (Paris, 16). Mathieu Petit-Didier, a Benedictine monk, published an anonymous volume of Remarques sur la bibliothèque des auteurs ecclésiastiques de M.

In this way errors crept into his writings and his productions were violently attacked. Unfortunately he was young and worked rapidly. He was also the first to publish such a collection in a modern language. In it he treated simultaneously biography, literary criticism, and the history of dogma in this he was a pioneer leaving far behind him all previous efforts, Catholic or Protestant, which were still under the influence of the Scholastic method.

Nouvelle bibliothèque des auteurs ecclésiastiques Ībout 1684 Dupin conceived the idea of his Nouvelle bibliothèque des auteurs ecclésiastiques, the first volume of which appeared in 1686. He became a pupil of the Sorbonne, and received the degree of B.D. But, while not hostile to the Jansenists, Dupin's intellectual attraction was in another direction he was the disciple of Jean Launoy, a learned critic and a Gallican. At the age of twenty, he accompanied Racine, who made a visit to Nicole for the purpose of becoming reconciled to the gentlemen of Port Royal. When ten years old he entered the college of Harcourt, where he graduated M.A.

His mother, a Vitart, was the niece of Marie des Moulins, grandmother of the poet Jean Racine. Louis Ellies Dupin Childhood and education ĭupin was born at Paris, coming from a noble family of Normandy.

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