Jean-François Collange (born
Le Puy-en-Velay
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, 1944) is a French
Lutheran
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pastor and professor of theology.
He served as Lutheran pastor in
Alsace
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and
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, before turning to
exegetical studies, taking up a post of practical theology at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the
University of Strasbourg
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in 1981. He continued teaching at the faculty until 2000.
In 2003 he was elected President of the
.
In 2006 he was elected the first president of the
Union of Protestant Churches of Alsace and Lorraine
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(UEPAL). He was re-elected in 2009
and again in 2012, but announced that he would be standing down at the end of 2013.
In an interview in 2013, he admitted that UEPAL was his own initiative.
Bibliography
* Epitre au Corinthiens - 1972
* The Epistle of Saint Paul to the Philippians, 1979 (translation of Epitre au Philippiens - 1973)
* L'éthique du nouveau testament - 1980
* L'épître de Saint Paul à Philémon (Labor et Fides) - 1987
* Théologie des droits de l'homme Editions du Cerf, 1989
* Ethique et transplantation d'organes, 2000
* La vie, quelle vie?
exte imprimé
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: bioéthique et protestantisme, Editions Olivétan, 2007
References
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1944 births
Living people
People from Le Puy-en-Velay
20th-century Protestant theologians
French Lutheran theologians
20th-century French theologians
French Protestant ministers and clergy
20th-century Lutheran clergy