Pierre Charles , born with Brussels on July 3rd, 1883, deceased on February 11th, 1954, philosopher, theologist and Belgian Jesuit

It entered the Society of Jesus in 1899. It continued studies of philosophy to Leuwen and Valkenburg. He taught theology with Egenhoven of 1914 with his death in 1954.

A prophet of the unification of the world and decolonization

This polyglot taught in the whole world, with Rome, New York, Rio de Janeiro, in French, Latin, English and Portuguese. As of 1920, it defended the idea of perfectly autonomous Churches in the countries of missions. This aspect of its Missiologie - which seems to go from oneself today - was not at all obvious per hour when it carried out its combat for a true universality of the Church. It had habit to say that it is not normal that a Japanese must convert twice: with the Christian faith and an expression of this one in the Western cultural designs.

A philosopher and theologist

Besides it published meticulous research on the history of the evangelization to the Japan, but also on the theology of High-Church-Allemande, the Kantisme (see its contribution to general Histoire of the missions , Kant and the Kantianism in the Dictionnaire of catholic theology ). In the Belgian national Bibliography , Joseph Masson describes it like a burning apostle, prophet of the unification of the world, the equalization of the races, the emancipation of colonized, the need for giving to the Church a plurality faces according to the various cultural centres .

A Walloon militant

Collaborator of Élie Baussart with the Walloon Earth , it applied his principles to Wallonia. He wrote: Which are those which believe that Wallonia needs assistance, and who judge that, to help it, it should be informed of what it is? That they come in all confidence: that they speak in any frankness. We call large heart all sincere energies which will want to join our not involved efforts well. We do not have a social chronicle yet. Walloon art seeks historians. The religious inventory of our provinces is not even outlined. All is to be made, and it is extremely well: because if all is to be made, it is that nothing badly was still done.

The importance of this man can be perhaps measured with small ten pages that Jean Lacouture devoted to this Belgian Jesuit in his book on the Jesuits.

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