page_title: Pierre-Charles Marcel
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Pierre-Charles Marcel / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Pastor Marcel
context_page_description: Pierre-Charles Marcel was a leading French Reformed Protestant Christian pastor and philosopher who studied under France's leading evangelical-confessional mind, M. Auguste Lecerf. Marcel was sent to the Netherlands by Lecerf to study Christian philosophy under Herman Dooyeweerd.
  His ultimate aim was to translate the Dutchman’s magnum opus – Reformatorische wijsbegeerte – into French for the benefit of French-speaking Christians.
  Other duties, and a world war, ultimately scuppered this plan and, when an American translation of the massive three volume work was eventually published in the 1950s, Marcel abandoned his initial plan.
  During the fifties, however, he undertook a study of Dooyeweerd in two degree courses and produced what amounts to a brilliant summary in French of the Dutchman’s great work.
  Pierre-Charles Marcel also became the president of la Société Calviniste de France and was active in the International Association for Reformed Faith and Action. He was a pastor in l'Église réformée de France.
context_section_description: Pierre-Charles Marcel (1910–1992) was a leading French Reformed Protestant Christian pastor and philosopher who studied under France's leading evangelical-confessional mind, M. Auguste Lecerf (1873–1943). Marcel was sent to the Netherlands by Lecerf to study Christian philosophy under Herman Dooyeweerd.
  His ultimate aim was to translate the Dutchman’s magnum opus – Reformatorische wijsbegeerte – into French for the benefit of French-speaking Christians.
  Other duties, and a world war, ultimately scuppered this plan and, when an American translation of the massive three volume work was eventually published in the 1950s, Marcel abandoned his initial plan.
  During the fifties, however, he undertook a study of Dooyeweerd in two degree courses and produced what amounts to a brilliant summary in French of the Dutchman’s great work.
  Pierre-Charles Marcel also became the president of la Société Calviniste de France and was active in the International Association for Reformed Faith and Action (IARFA). He was a pastor in l'Église réformée de France. Two "Treatises" on early works of Herman Dooyeweerd (1894–1977) by Pierre-Charles Marcel, translated from the original unpublished French typescripts circa 1956, will appear for the first time as printed books in the French language, while translations of the French into English are planned for publication over the next two or three years. Colin Wright is the translator and redactor of the two forthcoming English editions.
  Pierre Charles Marcel was Pastor of the Reformed Church l'Eglise Réformée de France at St. Germain-en-Laye, near Paris for about 50 years. 
  He was for a while the secretary of the French Bible Society. In 1950 he founded La Revue Réformée and was its editor. After his death, Paul Wells took over editorship. Marcel was also an associate professor at Faculté Libre de Théologie Réformée d'Aix-en-Provence.
  He retired in 1969.
caption: Pastor Pierre-Charles Marcel
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