ABSTRACT
French theologian. Born in Vallont-Pont-d’Arc in 1839, Louis-Auguste Sabatier was a French Reformed Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion. He first lectured on reformed dogmatics in the Protestant Faculty of Theology at Strasbourg (1867-1872), and later helped to found the Protestant Faculty of Theology at Paris (1877), where he remained professor of THEOLOGY until his death, and from 1895 served as dean. Amid the religious and political complexities of the Third Republic, he proudly affirmed his allegiance to Huguenot traditions (see HUGUENOTS), his antipathy to the Catholic Church of FRANCE, and his objection to the absolutization of science within Positivism. Sabatier died in Paris in 1901.
