Editing Adolphe Monod

{{Short description|French Protestant churchman}}
[[Image:AdolpheMonod.jpg|thumb|Adolphe Monod]]
'''Adolphe-Louis-Frédéric-Théodore Monod''' (21 January 1802 – 6 April 1856) was a French Protestant pastor and theologian. His elder brother was [[Frédéric Monod]].<ref name=EB>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Monod, Adolphe}}</ref>

==Biography==

Monod was born in [[Copenhagen]], where his father, Jean Monod (1765–1836; himself the eldest son of pastor Gaspard Joël Monod /1717-1782/ and his wife Suzanne Madeleine Puerari /1739-1799/),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.monodgraphies.eu/vie/vie%20familiale/parents/jean-monod_bio_en.html|title=Biography of Jean Monod}}</ref> was a pastor of the French Reformed church and where Jean Monod met his wife and consequently Adolphe's mother, Louise-Philippine de Coninck (1775-1851), daughter of shipowner [[Frédéric de Coninck]].<ref>{{HDS|11281|Jean Monod|author=Gabriel Mützenberg|date=29 August 2007}}</ref> Educated at [[Paris]] and [[Geneva]], Monod began his life-work in 1825 as founder and pastor of a Protestant church in [[Naples]], moving to [[Lyon]] in 1827.<ref name=EB/> 

In Lyon, Monod' preaching, and especially a sermon on the duties of communicants (''Qui doit communier''?), led to his deposition by the Catholic Minister of education and religion.<ref name=EB/> Instead of leaving Lyon he began to preach in a hall and then in a chapel.<ref name=EB/> In 1836 Monod took a professorship in the theological college of [[Montauban]], moving in 1847 to Paris as preacher at the [[L'Oratoire du Louvre|Oratoire]].<ref name=EB/> He died in Paris on 6 April 1856.<ref name=EB/><ref>[http://data.bnf.fr/13003122/adolphe_monod/ Adolphe Monod (1802-1856)] data.bnf.fr.</ref>

==Legacy==

Monod was considered by some the foremost Protestant preacher of 19th-century France (e.g. Guillaume Guizot (1833-1892), son of the French statesman and Protestant historian François Guizot (1787-1874)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.museeprotestant.org/en/notice/francois-guizot-1787-1874-2/|title = François Guizot (1787-1874)}}</ref> referred to him in an article published in the “Journal des débats politiques et littéraires” (Journal of political and literary debates) on April 11, 1856, i.e. a few days after Adolphe Monod's funeral, as "one of the foremost Christian speakers of his time."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.monodgraphies.eu/perception/guizot_en.html|title = Guizot on Monod}}</ref> He published three volumes of sermons in 1830, another, ''La Crédulité de l'incrédule'' in 1844, and two more in 1855. Two further volumes appeared after his death.<ref name=EB/> One of his most influential books was the posthumous, [https://archive.org/details/lesadieuxdadolp02monogoog ''Les Adieux d'Adolphe Monod à ses Amis et à l'Église''] (1857).

==Marriage and issue==
Monod married Hannah Honyman (1799-1868)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.monodgraphies.eu/vie/vie%20familiale/hannah/hannah_en.html|title=Hannah Honyman}}</ref> in Lyon on 2 September 1829. They had seven children,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.famillemonod.com/genealogie/getperson.php?personID=I7753&tree=monod&PHPSESSID=ubup5d215qun5hb1kseh9kkod4 |title=Hannah Honyman - Monod |access-date=2017-01-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113130836/http://www.famillemonod.com/genealogie/getperson.php?personID=I7753&tree=monod&PHPSESSID=ubup5d215qun5hb1kseh9kkod4 |archive-date=2017-01-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref> including pastor André John William Honyman Monod (1834–1916), philanthropist and feminist [[Sarah Monod|Alexandrine Elisabeth Sarah Monod]] (1836–1912), Émilie Monod and Camille Monod (1843–1910).

==References==
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==Sources==
*{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Monod, Adolphe}}
* Monod, S., ''[https://archive.org/details/lifelettersofado00mono Life and Letters of Adolphe Monod, pastor of the Reformed Church of France]'', by one of his daughters, London : Nisbet & Co., 1885 &mdash; authorised translation, abridged from the original.
* Monod, Adolphe, ''Adolphe Monod's Farewell to his Friends and to his Church'', a new translation by the Rev. Owen Thomas. London, Banner of Truth Trust, 1962.
* Osen, James L., ''Prophet and peacemaker : the life of Adolphe Monod'', Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c1984, {{ISBN|0-8191-3826-6}}.

==External links==
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*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20071128053742/http://questionsplease.org/spark.html Spark of Grace - A book about the "Haldane Revival in which the Monod brothers feature prominently]}}

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