Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Bianchi, Andrea
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
Jesuit
In the Index: Bianchi, A.
Added because Merkelbach and Koch-Preuss discuss his opposition to probabilism.
His Moral System, as Our Authors Report It
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| Probabiliorist | |
|---|---|
| Counted among them by one of our authors | Noldin, Summa I, n. 231 |
| “also P. Comitoli and A. Bianchi from the Society of Jesus, all probabiliorists”Merkelbach: against the probabilists of his time he was a probabiliorist | Merkelbach, Summa II, excursus on the moral systems |
| Against probabilism | |
| “This thesis was favorably received by the majority of Catholic moralists and met with no ex professo opposition until Father Andrew Bianchi, S.J., attacked it in his treatise De Opinionum Praxi Disputatio, published at Genoa in 1642. The bitterest opponents of simple Probabilism were the Jansenists, especially Blaise Pascal, who, in his famous Lettres a un Provincial (1656), attacked Probabilism with vigor and grace of style.”Koch-Preuss make him the first to attack probabilism ex professo | Koch-Preuss, Handbook I, the moral systems |
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).