Excerpt from Memoire en Faveur de la Liberte des Cultes: Ouvrage Qui A Obtenu le Prix dans le Concours Ouvert par la Societe de la Morale Chretienne
L'opinion que j'ai developpee sur le catholi cisme a donne lieu a un discours remarquable ou le rapporteur du concours a presente de ban tes considerations auxquelles donnait un nouveau prix l'eclat de son talent. Il a montre dans l'eglise catholique cet important principe de la distinction, des deux puissances que M. D'herm0pous est venu peu de jours apres proclamer officiellement a la tribune des de putes de la France. J'avais reconnu moi - meme d'apres les declarations des conciles que l'eglise romaine adoptait ce principe; et ce n'est pas ma faute si je n'ai pu enrichir cette verite des beaux developpemens que M. Guizot lui a donnes. Mais en reconnaissant ce principe je n'ai pu me dissimuler qu'un autre en contrariait les effets et c'est l'argument sur lequel j'ai etabli mon assertion. Je suis oblige de persister dans.wmr - ruoms. Xi l' opinion que j' ai exprimee opinion fondee sur un fait qu'on ne saurait je crois, renverser, et qui ne sera point dementi. Au reste on croira sans peine que cette discu ssion ne m'a cause au cun deplaisir personnel. Si M. Guizot m'a fait un fort grand honneur en s'exprimant avec ap probation sur mon ouvrage il m'en a fait un autre en me refutant.
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Alexandre Vinet was born near Lausanne in Switzerland. Educated for the Protestant ministry, he was ordained in 1819, when already teacher of the French language and literature in the gymnasium at Basel; and throughout his life he was as much a critic as a theologian. His literary criticism brought him into contact with Augustin Sainte-Beuve, for whom he obtained an invitation to lecture at Lausanne, which led to his famous work on Port-Royal.
As a theologian Vinet gave a fresh impulse to Protestant theology, especially in French-speaking lands, but also in England and elsewhere. His philosophy relied strongly on conscience, defined as that by which man stands in direct personal relation with God as moral sovereign, and the seat of a moral individuality which nothing can rightly infringe.
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