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Boux, Guillaume Le a French theologian, was born at Anjou in 1621. After having been successively sweeper of the college, Capuchin, oratorian, and rector, he taught rhetoric at Riom, and, during the Fronde, sustained by his preaching the royal authority. He was appointed bishop of Apt in 1658, and of Perigueux in 1667. During the … Continue reading “Boux, Guillaume Le”

Bouvier, Jeanne-Marie, de La Motte-Guyon A celebrated French mystic of the seventeenth century; born at Montargis, in the Orléanais, 13 April, 1648; died at Blois, 9 June, 1717. Her father was Claude Bouvier, a procurator of the tribunal of Montargis. Of a sensitive and delicate constitution, she was sickly in her childhood and her education … Continue reading “Bouvier, Jeanne-Marie, de La Motte-Guyon”

Bouvier, Jean-Baptiste Bishop of Le Mans, theologian, b. At St. Charles-la-Forêt, Mayenne, 16 January, 1783; d. at Rome, 28 December, 1854. Having received merely an elementary education, he learned his father’s trade of carpentry, but he gave his spare time to the study of the classics under the direction of the parish priest. In 1805 … Continue reading “Bouvier, Jean Baptiste”

Bouvet, Joachim (died 1732 ) Jesuit scholar and missionary; born Le Mans, France ; died Peking. Arriving in China, 1688 , he was appointed mathematician to Emperor Khang-hi, and from 1708 -1715 made a survey of the empire, and prepared maps of the provinces. He shared all the labors of his fellow missionaries, who were … Continue reading “Bouvet, Joachim”

Bouveri, Gabriel bishop of Angers, who died Feb. 10, 1572, left a French translation of the Pastoral of St. Gregory, a Guide for Curates, etc. He Was the first bishop at Trent to deliver his opinion in favor of the residence of bishops. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bouvens, de Abbe, a French theologian, was born at Bourg, in Bresse, about 1750. He first went to Germany, then to England, in consequence of his refusal to take the oath required of ecclesiastics at the period of the Revolution. In 1804 he pronounced the funeral oration of the duke of Enghien in the chapel … Continue reading “Bouvens, de”

Bouvens, Charles de French pulpit orator, b. at Bourg in 1750; d. in 1830. At an early age he embraced the ecclesiastical state and became vicar general to his fellow-townsman, Monseigneur de Conzié, Archbishop of Tours. When the Revolution broke out, he refused to take the required oaths, and followed his archbishop to Germany. The … Continue reading “Bouvens, Charles de”

Bouvenot, Louis, Pierre a French theologian and physician, was born at Arbois in 1756. He abandoned the career of arms for the ecclesiastical calling, and was appointed vicar of St. John Baptist at Besancon. At the commencement of the Revolution he became one of the grand-vicars of the metropolitan bishopric of Est, but during the … Continue reading “Bouvenot, Louis, Pierre”

Boutroux, E. (1845-1921) Teacher of Bergson and M. Blondel, is best known for his defense of radical contingency and indeterminacy in metaphysics. Influenced by French “spiritualism” stemming from Maine de Biran, Boutroux was critical of the current psychological and sociological treatment of religious experience. Main worksContingency of the Laws of Nature (tr. 1920); Philosophy and … Continue reading “Boutroux, E.”

Boutwell, James a Congregational minister, was born at Lyndeborough, N. H., May 14, 1814. He was converted while at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., under a sermon delivered by Dr. Lyrman Beecher. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1836, and at Andover in 1840, and was ordained in 1841. He labored at Brentwood, N. H., 1841 … Continue reading “Boutwell, James”