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integrate it into the encyclopedia. (January 2013)| Born at
Nantes, France, he entered the Society of Jesus in October 1895.
He was ordained priest on 24 August 1908 at Hastings. The same
year he had obtained a doctorate for two theses presented to the
Sorbonne: L'intellectualisme de saint Thomas and Pour l'histoire
du probleme de l'amour au Moyen Age. In November 1909 he entered
the Institut Catholique at Paris; he was given the chair of
dogmatic theology in the following year, which he occupied till
he was called to military service in 1914, apart from a year
(1912–13) spent in England. He was killed in battle at Eparges,
on 25 April 1915. Rousselot’s L’intellectualisme de saint Thomas
drew attention to the continuing vitality in Thomas’ synthesis
of Christian Platonism. Rousselot suggested a new concept of
revelation: that revelation be conceived not as a sum total of
distinct truths, propositions, judgments, but as a kind of
knowledge that is indef