Louis Bouyer

Louis Bouyer (1913, Paris – 2004) was a French Lutheran minister who converted to Catholicism in 1939. During his religious career he was a scholar who was relied upon during the Second Vatican Council. 
He was known for his books on Christian spirituality and its history. He also was a co-founder of the international review Communio. He was chosen by the pope to be part of a team to initiate the International Theological Commission in 1969. 
==Footnotes==
== Published works ==
* Liturgical Piety (1955)
* The Spirit and Forms of Protestantism (1956)
* Newman: His Life and Spirituality (1960 or earlier)
* Introduction to Spirituality (1961)
* The Word, Church and Sacraments In Protestantism and Catholicism (1961)
* Liturgy and Architecture (1967)
* The Spirituality of the New Testament and the Fathers (History of Christian Spirituality; v. 1) (1982)
* The Spirituality of the Middle Ages (History of Christian Spirituality; v. 2) (1982)
* Eucharist: Theology and Spirituality of the Eucharistic Prayer (1989)
==External links==
*Biography at Ignatius Insight.
*Mark Brumley, Why Only Catholicism Can Make Protestantism Work: Louis Bouyer on the Reformation, on the Catholic Education Resource Center webpage; reprinted from Mark Brumley. "Why Only Catholicism Can Make Protestantism Work: Louis Bouyer on the Reformation," Catholic Dossier 7 no. 5 (September–October 2001): 30–35.
*Mark Brumley, Why Catholicism Makes Protestantism Tick: Louis Bouyer on the Reformation, on the Ignatius Insight webpage (November 2004).
*Analysis of Bouyer's writing "La Décomposition du Catholicisme" on traditioninaction.org
 
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