Claude Geffré

Claude Geffré (23 January 1926 – 9 February 2017) was a French Roman Catholic theologian.

He became a Professor of Theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris in 1965, and he was the director of the École Biblique in Jerusalem from 1996 to 1999.

[1] In 1977, he was the co-founder of the Groupe de recherches islamo-chrétien (GRIC), a research centre for Christian-Muslim Studies.

[1] Some of his books, like Le christianisme comme religion de l'Evangile, were dismissed as "relativistic" by some critics.

[1][4] His funeral will be held at the Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Jacques on 13 February 2017 and he will be buried in Étiolles, Essonne, France.