Paul Gauthier (30 August 1914 in La Flèche – 25 December 2002 in Marseille) was a Catholic theologian and humanist, known best for his contributions to liberation theology.
Biography
editHe was born in La Flèche in 1914. At some point he was a professor at a seminary in Dijon.[1] He lived in Nazareth, Palestine, from 1956 to 1967, leaving shortly after the Six Days' War. Gauthier was invited by Georges Hakim, Archbishop of Galilee, to speak to the Second Vatican Council, where he called on the Church to take on a more active role in social justice.[2] While in Palestine, he was part of a group called "Companions of Jesus the Carpenter", providing aid to poverty-stricken people.[3] He died in Marseille in 2002.
One of his students was Enrique Dussel, who claimed that his time with Gauthier "opened [his] mind, [his] spirit, [his] flesh, to a project again unsuspected."[4]
See also
editBibliography
edit- Jesus, l'église et les pauvres(Jesus, the Church and the Poor) (1963)
References
edit- ^ Moulinet, Daniel (2017). "Le souci de la pauvreté: Une forme de présence du Père de Foucauld au concile Vatican II ?". Histoire, Monde et Cultures Religieuses. 44 (4). doi:10.3917/hmc.044.0097. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
- ^ Kandel Lamdan, Silvana (October 2022). "A Tembel Hat in the Streets of Nazareth: Paul Gauthier's Israeli Experience". Harvard Theological Review. 115 (4): 566–590. doi:10.1017/S0017816022000323. S2CID 253398729.
- ^ McGee, Daniel B. (1966). "Review of Christ, the Church and the Poor; There Shall be No Poor; Faces of Poverty". Journal of Church and State. 8 (3): 477–479. doi:10.1093/jcs/8.3.477. ISSN 0021-969X. JSTOR 23913513. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
- ^ Kandel Lamdan, Silvana (January 2022). "The "Israel Experience" and the Origins of Latin American Identity: Enrique Dussel in the Wake of Martin Buber's "Semitic-Bedouin" Indigeneity". Journal of Ecumenical Studies. 57 (1): 16–29. doi:10.1353/ecu.2022.0002. S2CID 250434510.
