Bédien Morange

French theologian

Bédien Morange (born in Paris and died in 1703 in Lyon), was a French theologian.

He was a doctor of Sorbonne. In 1660, he became canon and cantor of the Église Saint-Nizier (Lyon) and then was general vicar of the diocese.^[1] He devoted himself especially to refute the theory of Isaac de la Peyrère, who held that the Old Testament proves that there were men before Adam, and he wrote a catechism for his diocese, Summa universœ Theologiae Catéchistae. He was a member of the Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement.^[2]

The epistle Instructions pour les confesseurs by Jesuit Gaspard Loarte was dedicated to him.^[3]

Works

Libri de preadamitis brevis Analysis, Lyon, Ant. Jullieron and Ant. Baret, 1656, in-16°.
Primatus Lugdunensis Apologeticon, Lyon, Ant. Jullieron and Ant. Baret 1658, in 8°.
Summa universœ Theologiae Catéchistae, Lyon, 1670, 4 vol. in-8°.

References

^ « Étude sur les historiens du lyonnais », Revue du Lyonnais, esquisses physiques, morales et historiques, Lyon, L. Boitel, 1837, t. V, pp. 192-194.
^ Jean-Pierre Gutton, Dévots et société au XVIIe siècle. Construire le Ciel sur la Terre, Belin, 2004, p. 75.
^ Instructions pour les confesseurs, by Reverend Gaspard Loarte De la Compagnie de Jesus. Nouvellement traduites du Latin en François, Lyon Pierre Guillimin, 1674