Alain Le Boulluec (born 1941) is a contemporary French

patristics Patristics or patrology is the study of the early Christian writers who are designated Church Fathers. The names derive from the combined forms of Latin ''pater'' and Greek ''patḗr'' (father). The period is generally considered to run from ...

scholar working mainly in the sphere of

Clement of Alexandria Titus Flavius Clemens, also known as Clement of Alexandria ( grc , Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; – ), was a Christian theologian and philosopher who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria. Among his pupils were Origen and ...

and of

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. Le Boulluec is the Director

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of Studies of the

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in Paris, part of the

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. His studies have also focused on heresy and on the Neo-Chalcedonian movement which developed in

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during the reign of the Emperor

Justinian Justinian I (; la, Iustinianus, ; grc-gre, Ἰουστινιανός ; 48214 November 565), also known as Justinian the Great, was the Byzantine emperor from 527 to 565. His reign is marked by the ambitious but only partly realized ''renovat ...

(527-565 AD). Among his publications Le Boulluec has edited ''Clément d'Alexandrie, Stromates V and VII'' in the

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 ...

collection (nos.278,279,428). He is also a contributor to the '' la Bible d'Alexandrie'', a translation of the

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References

Works

* ''Histoire de la littérature grecque'', PUF, "Quadrige", 2010 * A. Le Boulluec (dir.), ''A la recherche des villes saintes'', Turnhout, Brepols, 2004., 2007 * A. Le Boulluec, E. Patlagean (dir.), ''Les retours aux Ecritures. Fondamentalismes présents et passés'', Leuven, Peeters, 1993, 2007 * Clément d'Alexandrie, ''Stromate'' V, Introduction, texte critique, commentaire, par A. Le Boulluec, S. C. 278–279, Paris,1981, 2007 * Clément d'Alexandrie, ''Stromate'' VII, Intr., Texte critique, Trad. et notes par A. Le Boulluec, SC 428, Paris, 1997., 2007 * ''L'Exode'', Trad. du texte grec de la ''Septante'', introd. et notes par A. Le Boulluec et P. Sandevoir, BA 2, Paris, 1989., 2007 * Origène, ''Traité des principes'', traduction par M. Harl, G. Dorival, A. Le Boulliuec, Paris, Etudes Augustiniennes, 1976, 2007 * Roman pseudo-clémentin. ''Homélies'', dans ''Écrits apocryphes chrétiens'', Paris, Gallimard, 2005 ( trad. des Hom. 3, 5–7, 16–20)., 2007 * S. Saïd, M. Trédé, A. Le Boulluec, ''Histoire de la littérature grecque'', Paris, PUF, 1997 ("La littérature grecque chrétienne"), 2007 (Traduction grecque du précédent, Athènes, 2004, 2007) * ''La notion d'hérésie dans la littérature grecque'', 2 tomes, Paris, Etudes Augustiniennes, 1985, 2007 1941 births Living people French historians of religion Patristic scholars {{france-academic-bio-stub