Augustin Bonnetty

of Basses-Alpes), 9 May 1798, died at Paris, 26 March 1879) was a French thinker and writer who founded and edited the Annales de philosophie chrétienne from 1830 until his death.

In 1825, he went to Paris, and five years later founded the Annales de philosophie chrétienne (first number 31 July 1830) which he edited until his death.

Among the main features of the Annales was the attempt to show the universality of a primitive revelation which is recognizable even in the myths and fables of all nations.

Félicité de Lamennais' Essai sur l'indifférence en matière de religion (1817) impressed Bonnetty so much that he devoted his whole life to justifying and developing its tenet that Christianity is the one universal belief whose basic principles were never lacking in any age or civilization.

"[1] Bonnetty consistently stressed the necessity of giving an "honourable place" to the humane sciences in the curriculum of ecclesiastical studies.