He joined the Society of Jesus in 1892 and became a biblical scholar, textual critic, and publisher on patristics.
Joseph de Guibert in editing Revue d'ascétique et mystique after 1924 and became its editor from 1928 until his death.
[2] He also collaborated in producing the Dictionary of Ascetic and Mystical Spirituality in 1928 and edited the Catholic Institute review, Bulletin of Ecclesiastical Literature.
He also wrote on Saint Athanasius (1908) and produced indices of the Greek Patrologia Graeca of Jacques Paul Migne (1912) and of Christian doctrine (Thesaurus doctrinae catholicae ex documentas Magisterii ecclesiastici, 1920) which is similar to that of Denzinger.
He published articles on spiritual theology and its history, with at times a polemical stance employing categorical exclusives.