Gérard Dagon
Gérard Dagon (4 April 1936, Strasbourg - 22 May 2011, Gandrange)[1] was a French evangelical pastor, teacher, author, publisher and long-time Christian countercultist.
Early life and education
[edit]He got a Master of Divinity at the faculty of Protestant theology in the University of Strasbourg.[2]
Ministry
[edit]He became pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine (EPRAL) in 1959, then directed the Union of Evangelical Churches Chrischona (Union des Églises évangéliques Chrischona).[3] He participated in the creation of the evangelical directory, then became president of the (Fédération évangélique de France) in 1991 for a few years .[4] He founded, alongside others such as Swiss pastor and former member of the ADFI Paul Ranc, the association Vigi-sectes in 1998 who informs about religions and cults from a christian perspective.[3] He published books about religious movements, about pseudo-Christian groups he considered cults because of their supposed biblical errors,[5] and an extensive encyclopedia on Christianity. He listed 150 people who have claimed to be the Messiah from the first century CE.[6] At the end of his ministry, he became pastor of an Independent Baptist church in Moselle.[7]
Reception
[edit]In 1998, the pastor of the Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine Sylvain Dujancourt accused Dagon of using his anti-cult campaign to attract new people to his church.[3]
Sébastien Fath considered Dagon a "key figure of French evangelical Protestantism since the 1970s",[8] and Émile Poulat qualified him a "pioneer" in the religious issues.[9]
Main works
[edit]- Les Sectes en France, 1958
- Petites églises de France, Amneville, six volumes, 1960s-1970s
- Parlons sectes, Barnabas editions, 1991, ISBN 2-908582-04-X
- Panorama de la France Évangélique, Barnabas editions, 1993, ISBN 2-908582-07-4
- Les Sectes à visage découvert : Tome 1 , Yerres : Barnabas editions, 1995, ISBN 2-908582-09-0
- Les Sectes à visage découvert : Tome 2 , Dozulé :Barnabas editions, 1997, ISBN 2-908582-17-1
- Nouvelle Encyclopédie chrétienne, Gandrange, 2005, 1247 p., ISBN 2-9500197-3-0
References
[edit]- ^ Ohlott, Paul (25 May 2011). "Décès du pasteur Gérard Dagon, l'un des fondateurs de Vigi-Sectes" (in French). Top Chretien. Archived from the original on 3 August 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
- ^ "Les sectes expliquées en public". La Dépêche du Midi (in French). Toulouse: La Dépêche Group. 6 March 2006. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
- ^ a b c Hervieu-Léger, Benoît (16 April 1998). "Sectes". La Croix (in French). Paris: Bayard Press. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
- ^ Evangeliques info, Le pasteur Gérard Dagon n’est plus, evangeliques.info, Switzerland, May 25, 2011
- ^ Rath, Noël M.; Gilbert, Marcel (2005). Les sectes en question: Se questionner et questionner (in French). L'Harmattan. p. 55. ISBN 2-7475-8996-X.
- ^ Ohlott, Paul (20 August 2007). "Les prétendants au Trône céleste !" (in French). Top Chrétien. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
- ^ Evangeliques info, Le pasteur Gérard Dagon n’est plus, evangeliques.info, Switzerland, May 25, 2011
- ^ Fath, Sébastien. Du ghetto au réseau: le protestantisme évangélique en France (1800–2005) (in French). Genève: Labor et Fides. p. 194. ISBN 2-8309-1139-3.
- ^ Poulat, Émile (2003). Notre laïcité publique: "La France est une République laïque" (Constitutions de 1946 et 1958) (in French). Berg International. p. 259. ISBN 2-911289-65-X.
External links
[edit]- (in French) Site of Vigi-sectes
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- 1936 births
- 2011 deaths
- 20th-century Baptist ministers
- 20th-century French male writers
- 20th-century French non-fiction writers
- 21st-century Baptist ministers
- 21st-century French male writers
- 21st-century French non-fiction writers
- Baptist writers
- Clergy from Strasbourg
- French evangelicals
- French male non-fiction writers
- French religious writers
- Independent Baptist ministers
- People of the Christian countercult movement