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Alexander Natalis

French theologian and historian
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French:
Alexandre Noël
Born:
January 19, 1639, Rouen, France
Died:
August 21, 1724, Paris (aged 85)
Subjects Of Study:
Christianity
Gallicanism
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Alexander Natalis (born January 19, 1639, Rouen, France—died August 21, 1724, Paris) was a controversial theologian and ecclesiastical historian who clashed with Rome for expressing Gallicanism, a French position advocating restriction of papal power, and for defending Jansenism, a religious movement of nonorthodox tendencies in France. Natalis joined the Dominicans at Rouen (1655), received a doctorate in divinity from the Sorbonne (1675), and was regent of studies at Saint-Jacques, Paris. Natalis’s chief work, Selecta historiae ecclesiasticae capita, 24 vol. (1676–86; “Selected Chapters of Ecclesiastical History”), was condemned by Pope Innocent XI in 1684 because of its defense of Gallican claims. ...(100 of 195 words)

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