Roman Catholic
Roman or Romans most often refers to:
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* Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
* Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a let ...
theological writers from the
Society of Jesus
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Catholic Encyclopedia
The ''Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church'' (also referred to as the ''Old Catholic Encyclopedia'' and the ''Original Catholic Encyclopedia'') i ...
'' of 1913, article list and textual allusions, for theologians up to the beginning of the twentieth century.
It is chronologically arranged by date of death.
Peter Canisius
Peter Canisius ( nl, Pieter Kanis; 8 May 1521 – 21 December 1597) was a Dutch Jesuit Catholic priest. He became known for his strong support for the Catholic faith during the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Swit ...
(1521–1597)
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Luis de Molina
Luis de Molina (29 September 1535 – 12 October 1600) was a Spanish Jesuit Catholic priest, priest and Scholasticism, scholastic, a staunch defender of free will in the controversy over human liberty and God's grace. His theology is known ...
Robert Bellarmine
Robert Bellarmine, SJ ( it, Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino; 4 October 1542 – 17 September 1621) was an Italian Jesuit and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was canonized a saint in 1930 and named Doctor of the Church, one of only 37. ...
(1542–1621)
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Diego Ruiz de Montoya
Diego Ruiz de Montoya (born 1562 in Seville, died 15 March 1632 in Seville) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian.
Life
He entered the Society of Jesus in 1572 and was professed on 22 July 1592. He taught philosophy in Granada, moral theology for one ...
Juan de Dicastillo
Juan de Dicastillo (28 December 1584 – 6 March 1653) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian. He was born in Naples. He entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in 1600, and was professor of theology for twenty-five years at Toledo, Spain, Toledo, M ...
Honoré Fabri
Honoré Fabri (Honoratus Fabrius; 15 April 1608 – 8 March 1688) was a French Jesuit theologian, also known as ''Coningius''. He was a mathematician, physicist and controversialist.Jean Crasset (1618–1692)
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Philip Aranda
Philip Aranda (3 February 1642 - 3 June 1695) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian.
Biography
Aranda was born at Moneva in Aragon. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1658, and taught theology and philosophy at Zaragoza.
He was connected with the Inq ...
Salvator Tongiorgi Salvator Tongiorgi (25 December 1820 – 12 November 1865) was an Italian Jesuit philosopher and theologian.
Life
Born in Rome, Tongiorgi entered the Society of Jesus at the age of seventeen. After the usual noviceship, literary and philosophical ...
Clement Schrader Clement Schrader (November 1820 at Itzum, in Hanover, Germany – 23 February 1875 at Poitiers, France) was a German Jesuit theologian.
Life
Schrader studied at the German College at Rome (1840–48) and entered the Society of Jesus on 17 Ma ...
(1820–1875)
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Giovanni Perrone Giovanni Perrone (11 March 1794 – 26 August 1876) was an Italian Jesuit and renowned theologian.
Life
Perrone was born in Chieri, Piedmont. After studying theology and obtaining a doctorate at Turin, he entered the Society of Jesus in Rome at age ...
(1794–1876)
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Constantine von Schäzler
Constantine von Schäzler (b. at Ratisbon, 7 May 1827; d. at Interlaken, 9 September 1880) was a German Jesuit theologian.
Life
By birth and training a Protestant, he was a pupil at the Protestant gymnasium St. Anna of Ratisbon; took the philosoph ...
(1827–1880)
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Antonio Ballerini Antonio Ballerini (10 October 1805 – 27 November 1881) was an Italian Jesuit theologian.
Biography
Ballerini was born in Medicina, in what is now the Province of Bologna.
He entered the Society of Jesus, on 13 October 1826. He was professo ...
Matteo Liberatore
Matteo Liberatore (born at Salerno, Italy, 14 August 1810; died at Rome, 18 October 1892) was an Italian Jesuit philosopher, theologian, and writer. He helped popularize the Jesuit periodical '' Civiltà Cattolica'' in close collaboration with th ...
Domenico Palmieri Domenico Palmieri (Piacenza, Italy, 4 July 1829 – Rome, 29 May 1909) was an Italian Jesuit scholastic theologian.
Life
He studied in his native city, where he was ordained priest in 1852. On 6 June 1852, he entered the Society of Jesus, wher ...
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( (); 1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French Jesuit priest, scientist, paleontologist, theologian, philosopher and teacher. He was Darwinian in outlook and the author of several influential theological and phil ...
(1881–1955)
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John Courtney Murray
John Courtney Murray (September 12, 1904 – August 16, 1967) was an American Jesuit priest and theologian, who was especially known for his efforts to reconcile Catholicism and religious pluralism, particularly focusing on the relationsh ...
(1904–1967)
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Erich Przywara
Erich Przywara (12 October 1889, Katowice28 September 1972, Hagen near Murnau) was a Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theologian of German- Polish origin, who was one of the first Catholics to engage in dialogue with modern philosophers, es ...
(1889–1972)
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Jean Daniélou
Jean-Guenolé-Marie Daniélou (; 14 May 1905 – 20 May 1974) was a French Jesuit and cardinal, an internationally well known patrologist, theologian and historian and a member of the Académie Française.
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(1905–1974)
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Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner (5 March 1904 – 30 March 1984) was a German Jesuit priest and theologian who, alongside Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Yves Congar, is considered to be one of the most influential Roman Catholic theologians of ...
(1904–1984)
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Bernard Lonergan
Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan (17 December 1904 – 26 November 1984) was a Canadian Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theologian, regarded by many as one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century.
Lonergan's works include ''Insight: A ...
(1904–1984)
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Anthony de Mello
Anthony de Mello, also known as Tony de Mello (4 September 1931 – 2 June 1987), was an Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist. A spiritual teacher, writer, and public speaker, de Mello wrote several books on spirituality and hosted nu ...
(1931–1987)
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Hans Urs von Balthasar
Hans Urs von Balthasar (12 August 1905 – 26 June 1988) was a Swiss theologian and Catholic priest who is considered an important Catholic theologian of the 20th century. He was announced as his choice to become a cardinal by Pope John Paul II, b ...
Joseph Fitzmyer
Joseph Augustine Fitzmyer (November 4, 1920 – December 24, 2016) was an American Catholic priest and scholar who taught at several American and British universities He was a member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
Fitzmyer was considered ...
(1920–2016)
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Xavier Tilliette
Xavier Tilliette (23 July 1921, Corbie, Somme (department), Somme – 10 December 2018, Paris) was a French philosopher, History of philosophy, historian of philosophy, and theologian. A former student of Jean Wahl and of Vladimir Jankélévitch, ...
Roger Haight
Roger Haight (born 1936) is an American Jesuit theologian and former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. He is regarded as a knowledgeable and pioneering theologian, whose experiences with censorship have led to widespread de ...
(1936–present)
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Jon Sobrino
Jon Sobrino (born 1938) is a Jesuit Catholic priest and theologian, known mostly for his contributions to Latin American liberation theology. He received worldwide attention in 2007 when the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith i ...
John Hardon
John Anthony Hardon, SJ (June 18, 1914 – December 30, 2000) was an American Jesuit priest, writer, and theologian. A candidate for sainthood since 2005, he is recognized by the Catholic Church as a Servant of God.
Early life
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Molinism
Molinism, named after 16th-century Spanish Jesuit priest and Roman Catholic theologian Luis de Molina, is the thesis that God has middle knowledge. It seeks to reconcile the apparent tension of divine providence and human free will. Prominent ...
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Probabilism
In theology and philosophy, probabilism (from Latin ''probare'', to test, approve) is an ancient Greek doctrine of Academic skepticism. It holds that in the absence of certainty, plausibility or truth-likeness is the best criterion. The term can ...
List of Franciscan theologians
This is a list of Franciscan theologians, in other words a list of Roman Catholic theological writers belonging to the Order of Friars Minor.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13610b.htm Scotism and Scotists
The intended arrangement is chronological ...