Jean-Marie Faux SJ (9 November 1923 – 2 May 2022) was Belgian Jesuit author, translator, professor, and theologian.

Biography and work

Faux was born in 1923. He lived for thirty years in the small commune of

Schaerbeek (French and archaic Dutch, ) or (contemporary Dutch, ) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the north-eastern part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Etterbeek, Evere and S ...

. During this time he became director of the Centre AVEC, a social and analysis center founded by the Jesuits in Brussels. He then moved to

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in 2006. When the community there ended, he moved to La Colombière. Faux was a professor at the ''Institut d’études théologiques'' (I.E.T.) in Brussels. In 1977 he published the study ''La foi du Nouveau Testament''. In 2010 he published ''De la société multiculturelle au dialogue interculturel: étapes de la réflexion politique en Belgique'' for the Centre Avec. The same year he argued against the ban on the full veil. In 2015 he translated ''Le recontre mondiale des mouvements populaires au Vatican'' from Italian into French. Faux was involved in several associations working for human rights. He was the general secretary of the Belgian MRAX, a movement against racism and xenophobia based in Brussels. In 2018, he was still in charge of the Belgian Center AVEC. Faux died on 2 May 2022 at the age of 98.

Bibliography

*french: Hertz et Hava Jospa, in : Jean-Philippe Schreiber (ed.), Hertz Jospa, juif, résistant, communiste, Editions Vie Ouvrière - Mrax, Bruxelles, 1997, 160 p.

References

External links

Faux at WorldCat

Faux's profile at the Bibliothèque nationale de France
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