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The most fertile period of Bouillard’s work corresponds to the period during the second half of the twentieth century when academic philosophy and theology had to compete with the human sciences, which had just made their entry into the field of university studies. Whereas Bouillard worked out the concept of fundamental theology to replace the older apologetics, he remains astonishingly silent about the possible contribution to the quest of meaning on the part of these new disciplines (sociology, history, psychology and linguistics).