Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Gennaro Bucceroni
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
S.J. · Jesuit · 1841–1918
On this site: Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis); Commentaries on Human Acts (Commentarii de Actibus Humanis); Cases of Conscience, Proposed by Cardinal de Lugo, by Fr. Beniamino Elbel, by Fr. Ioannes Petrus Gury and by Other Authors, and Resolved (Casus conscientiae); Commentaries on the Nature of Moral Theology, on Conscience and Probabilism, on the Fourth Precept, and on the Sixth and Ninth Precepts of the Decalogue (Commentarii); Moral Enchiridion, and Supplement to the Compendium of Moral Theology of Gury-Ballerini (Enchiridion Morale); Moral Enchiridion, Comprising Select Decrees and Definitions of the Holy See, of Ecumenical Councils and of the Sacred Roman Congregations (Enchiridion Morale), Fourth Edition
In the Index: Bucceroni, J. (S. J.)
His Moral System
Probabilism
- “But the true doctrine of probabilism, which we follow” — Bucceroni, IV. On the Doctrine of S. Alphonsus Concerning Probabilism, n. 133
As others report it
- “such as Gury, Ballerini, Lehmkuhl, Sabetti, Bucceroni” — Noldin, n. 233
Life
Born 1841; died 1918. [Prümmer, Catalogue of authors]
- Professor at the Gregorian University (Prümmer); his chair of moral theology passed to Vermeersch in 1918 (New Catholic Encyclopedia, on Vermeersch). [Prümmer, Catalogue of authors; New Catholic Encyclopedia, 'Vermeersch, Arthur']
- Institutiones theologiae moralis secundum doctrinam S. Thomae et S. Alphonsi, 6th ed., 4 vols., 1914–15. [Princeton catalogue record]
Sources: library catalogue authority records (Catholic Research Resources Alliance, Princeton); Prümmer, Manuale theologiae moralis, Catalogue of authors (on this site); New Catholic Encyclopedia (2nd ed., 2003), as published on Encyclopedia.com. Each fact names where it was read; the links go to the page or entry itself.
What Our Authors Say of Him
- “As to intellect and manner of writing he is sufficiently similar to Antonius Ballerini, S.J.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
His Moral System, as Our Authors Report It
Every report quoted in the author's own words and linked to its place; point at a name to see his words. Haringer's signs give St. Alphonsus's judgment as Haringer found it in St. Alphonsus's works (his notice, Gury-Ballerini, 1884, p. XI); a sign on a writer the 1884 editor added to the list is the editor's own, and is said to be his.
| Probabilist | |
|---|---|
| Counted among them by one of our authors | Noldin, Summa I, n. 233 |
| “But the true doctrine of probabilism, which we follow”In his own words (Probabilism) | Bucceroni, IV. On the Doctrine of S. Alphonsus Concerning Probabilism, n. 133 |
Where Our Authors Discuss Him
Each read in its full passage; the words quoted are the author's own. Where several authors say the same thing, one is quoted and the others follow “in nearly the same words”; point at a name to see his words.
| “Ballerini, Arendt, Bucceroni, and others err, who twist the words of the Holy Doctor into another sense”Marc: he errs in twisting the words of St. Alphonsus into another sense | Marc, Institutiones I, on the moral systems |
| “J. Bucceroni, SJ.”Koch-Preuss name him among recent authors who use the Scholastic method for the practical needs of the confessor | Koch-Preuss, Handbook I, history of moral theology |
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).