Bédien Morange was a French

France

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 theologian.

He was a doctor of Sorbonne

Sorbonne

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. In 1660, he became canon

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 and cantor

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 of the Église Saint-Nizier (Lyon), then general vicar

Vicar

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 of the diocese

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. He devoted himself especially to refute the theory of Isaac de la Peyrère who hold that the Old Testament

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 proves that there were men before Adam

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, and wrote a catechism

Catechism

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 for his discese entitled Summa universœ Theologiae Catéchistae. He was a member of the Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement.

The epistle Instructions pour les confesseurs by Jesuit Gaspard Loarte was dedicated to him.

Works

• Libri de preadamitis brevis Analysis, Lyon, Ant. Jullieron and Ant. Baret, 1656, in-16°.
• Primatus Lugdunensis Apologeticon, Lyon, Ant. Jullieron and Ant. Baret 1658, in 8°.
• Summa universœ Theologiae Catéchistae, Lyon, 1670, 4 vol. in-8°.