Eugène Ménégoz was a French Lutheran theologian who was a native of Algolsheim

Algolsheim

Algolsheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.-References:*...

, Haut-Rhin

Haut-Rhin

Haut-Rhin is a département of the Alsace region of France, named after the Rhine river. Its name means Upper Rhine. Haut-Rhin is the smaller and less populated of the two departements of Alsace, although is still densely populated compared to the rest of France.-Subdivisions:The department...

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He studied theology in Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...

, and in 1866 became pastor at the parish of Billettes in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. In 1877 he was appointed full professor to the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris

Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris

The Protestant Faculty of Theology of Paris was a Protestant institution moved to Paris from Strassburg in 1877 in the buildings of the former collège Rollin, Rue Lhomond....

 at the Sorbonne

Sorbonne

The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...

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With Louis Auguste Sabatier

Louis Auguste Sabatier

Louis Auguste Sabatier , French Protestant theologian, was born at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc , in the Cévennes, and was educated at the Protestant theological faculty of Montauban and the universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg.After holding the pastorate at Aubenas in the Ardèche from 1864 to 1868 he was...

 (1839–1921), he was originator of the French "Symbolo-Fideism" movement, a theological concept that was a union of symbolism

Symbolism (arts)

Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire...

 and fideism

Fideism

Fideism is an epistemological theory which maintains that faith is independent of reason, or that reason and faith are hostile to each other and faith is superior at arriving at particular truths...

. In his lectures and writings Ménégoz stressed that salvation was achieved through the act of faith independent of creed

Creed

A creed is a statement of belief—usually a statement of faith that describes the beliefs shared by a religious community—and is often recited as part of a religious service. When the statement of faith is longer and polemical, as well as didactic, it is not called a creed but a Confession of faith...

. A few of his more important publications were:

• L'autorité de Dieu, réflexions sur l'autorité en matière de foi (1892)
• La notion biblique du miracle (1894)
• Étude sur le dogmas de la Trinité (1898)
• Publications diverses sur le fidéisme et son application à l'enseignement chrétien traditionnel, 5 volumes (1900–21)