"La Vie de Jésus" (1863), the seminal work by a Frenchman, Ernest Renan (1823–1892), continued in the same tradition as Strauss and Feuerbach.In Catholicism, "L'Evangile et l'Eglise" (1902), the magnum opus by Alfred Loisy against the "Essence of Christianity" of Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930) and "La Vie de Jesus" of Renan, gave birth to the modernist crisis (1902–61).