Anthony Terill (born 1623, Canford,

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– died 11 October 1676,

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(present-day Belgium) was an English Roman Catholic

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theologian. Born in 1623 as Anthony Bonville to a Catholic mother and a Protestant father, in his 15th year, he was received into the

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and left England, taking the surname ''Terill''. He studied for about three years at the English

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, and then began his studies for the priesthood at the

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, where he was ordained on 16 March 1687. Two months later he entered the Jesuit

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at St Andrea. After his noviceship, he was successively

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at Loreto, professor of philosophy at

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, professor of philosophy and scholastic theology at

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, director of theological studies and professor of theology and mathematics at the English College,

, and for three years rector of the same college where he died with a reputation for "extraordinary piety, talent, learning, and prudence".

Works

Terill wrote ''Conclusiones philosophicæ'' (Parma, 1657), ''Problema mathematico-philosophicum de termino magnitudinis se virium in animalibus'' (Parma, 1660), ''Fundamentum totius theologiæ moralis, seu tractatus de conscientia probabili'' (Liège, 1668), and ''Regula morum'', which was published shortly after his death (Liège, 1677). His reputation as a moral theologian was established by these last two works. In the ''Fundamentum'' he ably defended the doctrine of probabilism and in the ''Regula morum'' refuted the objections brought against his first work by the Dominican Concina, the Jesuit Miguel de Elizalde (1617-1678) and other exponents of the Rigorist School. Amort speaks of him as "eruditissimum et probabilistarum antsignanum".

References

*Foley, ''Records of the English Province, S. J.'', III (London, 1878), 420 *

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, ''Bibliotheque de la Campagnie de Jesus'', VII (Brussels, 1896) *

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''Nomenclator'', II (Innsbruck, 1893), 275–276. *''This article incorporates text from the 1913 ''

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.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Terill, Anthony 1623 births 1676 deaths Date of birth unknown Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism 17th-century English Jesuits English theologians People educated at Stonyhurst College