Word: paganisme
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Abel Lefranc, Hyde lecturer for the current year, delivered the second lecture of the series of four on "Moliere" in the New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon. The special subject of the lecture was "The Relations of 'Le Tartuffe' to the Controversy over Renaissance Paganism."
Professor Lefranc traced the growth of the Renaissance revival of paganism, as opposed to the Christianity of the Middle Ages. The works of D'Urfee, de Scudery, Descartes and others who preceded Moliere are thoroughly pagan in spirit. The great bishop Fenelon wrote from a point of view almost diametrically...
The history of the drama in France showed this leaning toward paganism to such a marked degree that by 1630 the clergy was unequivocally opposed to it. With the production of Moliere's "L'Ecole des Femmes" in 1662, the long-maturing conflict between the clergy and the new literature...
The bitter opposition of generations of clergy, culminating in this explosion, forced Moliere into open conflict with the church. Professor Lefranc advanced the interesting theory that Moliere wrote "Le Tartuffe," not as an attack against religious hypocrites as a group,. but against religion in general. It was a defence of...
Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.D., '71, bishop of Massachusetts, presided at the mass meeting in Sanders Theatre last night. John R. Mott spoke on "The Possibilities of the Student World in the Extension of Christ's Kingdom," and Rev. Arthur S. Lloyd, D.D., general secretary of the Domestic and Foreign...