He became pastor of the
Protestant Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine (EPRAL) in 1959, then directed the Union of Evangelical Churches Chrischona (Union des Églises évangéliques Chrischona).[3] He participated in the creation of the evangelical directory, then became president of the (
Fédération évangélique de France) in 1991 for a few years .[4] He founded, alongside others such as
Swiss pastor and former member of the
ADFI Paul Ranc, the association Vigi-sectes in 1998 who fights against
cults from an evangelical perspective.[3] He published books about Protestant movements, about Christian-oriented groups he considered cults because of their supposed biblical errors,[5] and an extensive
encyclopedia on Christianity. He listed 150 people who have claimed to be the
Messiah from the first century CE.[6] At the end of his ministry, he became pastor of an
Independent Baptist church in
Moselle.[7]
Reception
In 1998, the pastor of the Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine Sylvain Dujancourt accused Dagon of using his anti-cult campaign to attract new people to his church.[3]
Sébastien Fath considered Dagon a "key figure of French evangelical Protestantism since the 1970s",[8] and
Émile Poulat qualified him a "pioneer" in the religious issues.[9]
Main works
Les Sectes en France, 1958
Petites églises de France, Amneville, six volumes, 1960s-1970s
^Fath, Sébastien. Du ghetto au réseau: le protestantisme évangélique en France (1800–2005) (in French). Genève: Labor et Fides. p. 194.
ISBN2-8309-1139-3.
^Poulat, Émile (2003). Notre laïcité publique: "La France est une République laïque" (Constitutions de 1946 et 1958) (in French). Berg International. p. 259.
ISBN2-911289-65-X.