Pierre-Charles Marcel (1910–1992) was a leading French neo-Calvinist Christian theologian. He was influenced by Auguste Lecerf (1873–1943), who had suggested that Marcel study Herman Dooyeweerd’s Christian philosophy.
Marcel was a pastor of the Reformed Church of France at St. Germain-en-Laye for about fifty years. He was, for a while, the secretary of the French Bible Society. In 1950, he founded La Revue Réformée and was its editor. After his death Paul Wells took over the editorship. Marcel was also an associate professor at the Free Faculty of Reformed Theology in Aix-en-Provence .
Paul Wells, Marcel’s successor as editor of the La Revue Reformée, writes:
“Pierre Charles Marcel was, like his colleague from the Reformed Church of France, Pierre Courthial, a disciple of the Calvinist theologian Auguste Lecerf. When he died in 1942, he took over the presidency of the Calvinist Society of France. In 1950, P. Marcel founded La Revue Réformée and became its first editor. He was responsible for its publication alone until 1978. Under his leadership, this publication acquired notoriety in the international Orthodox Reformed community. Neither Marcel nor Courthial saw their biblical Calvinist theology be well received in their Church in which they felt marginalized. Their work often had more resonance abroad than in France. After Courthial’s arrival at the Free Faculty of Reformed Theology of Aix-en-Provence, newly founded in 1974, the links between La Revue reformée and the faculty of the Faculty became closer. Marcel was one of the Faculty’s associate professors.”
Marcel wrote two works on Dooyeweerd’s philosophy. (For more details see here )
Colin Wright writes:
The first thesis: The Transcendental Critique of Theoretical Thought: Prolegomena to Herman Dooyeweerd’s Philosophy of the Law-Idea , was completed in 1956. For this he was awarded the Licencié en Théologie at the Faculté Libre de Theologie Protestante in Montpellier.
The second thesis: General Theory of the Law Spheres: Introduction to the theory of the temporal structure of reality in Herman Dooyeweerd’s Philosophy of the Law-Idea , was completed four years later and for which he was awarded the degree of Doctor en Theologie.
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Books available in English
The Biblical Doctrine of Infant Baptism: The Sacrament of the Covenant of Grace (James Clarke & Co.)
The Relevance of Preaching (Baker Books/ Wipf & Stock)
In God’s School (Wipf & Stock)
Works online
“ Our Lord’s Use of Scripture ,” Carl FH Henry, ed., Revelation and the Bible. Contemporary Evangelical Thought . Grand Rapids: Baker, 1958 / London: The Tyndale Press, 1959. pp.121-134.
1981. “Calvin and Copernicus”. Philosophia Refomata 46:14-36.
Articles from La Revue Reformée
- – Preface by Pierre MARCEL – n° 241 of 2007
- The hatred of the world by Pierre MARCEL – n° 198 of 1998
- Justification and sanctification in the thought of calvin by Pierre MARCEL – n° 236 of 2006
- The Word, Baptism, Holy Communion – The testimony of the reformed thought of Pierre MARCEL – n° 211 of 2001
- The task of the Holy Spirit by Pierre MARCEL – n° 199 of 1998
- Preface by Pierre MARCEL – n° 246 of 2008
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