Éditions du Cerf (
French
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: "Editions of the Deer") is a French
publishing house specializing in
religious books
Religion is usually defined as a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, tra ...
. It was founded in 1929, and operated by the
Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers ( la, Ordo Praedicatorum) abbreviated OP, also known as the Dominicans, is a Catholic mendicant order of Pontifical Right for men founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest, saint and mystic Dominic of Cal ...
.
The name is a reference to
Psalm 42 (41):
As the hart panteth after the fountains of water;
so my soul panteth after thee, O God.
See also
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Order of Friars Preachers
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Sources Chrétiennes
Sources Chrétiennes ( French "Christian sources") is a bilingual collection of patristic texts founded in Lyon in 1942 by the Jesuits Jean Daniélou, Claude Mondésert, and Henri de Lubac. Citations to the series are commonly made by the letter ...
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La Bible d'Alexandrie
''La Bible d'Alexandrie'' is a collection of fresh translations and commentaries in French devoted to the Greek Septuagint. The first volume, devoted to Genesis, was edited by Marguerite Harl in 1986. Since then another eighteen volumes have ap ...
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Maxence Caron
Maxence Caron (born 1976) is a French writer, poet, philosopher and musicologist.
Biography
He is ''agrégé'' in Philosophy (in 1999), Docteur ès lettres (at Sorbonne in 2003 with Rémi Brague as a thesis director. Director at the Publishi ...
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Claude Geffré
References
*''This article was translated from the French language Wikipedia''.
Further reading
Interview with Jean-Nicolas Sed, CEO of Éditions du Cerf, Dec. 21, 2006(French)
External links
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Book publishing companies of France
Dominican Order
Publishing companies established in 1929
Catholic publishing companies