Joseph Carrière

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Sulpician · 1795–1864

In the Index: Carriere

Dates differ: Prümmer 1795–1864; Haringer ?–1864.

In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index

“Carriere, Ios., French, of the Congregation of St. Sulpice (1795-1864), wrote lectures de matrimonio, 2 volumes, de iustitia et iure, 3 volumes, de contractibus, 3 volumes, which are sufficiently learned and which he afterward reduced into a compendium for the use of schools.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
[+: weighty, probabiliorist, the 1884 editor's sign] “Carrière Iosephus, French, of the Congregation of St. Sulpice (Greater Theological Lectures, On Contracts, and On Marriage), died 1864.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XV, sign read on the page)

This writer is one the 1884 editor added to Haringer's list (printed in italics); the sign is the editor's, not Haringer's report of St. Alphonsus.

His Moral System, as Our Authors Report It

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Probabiliorist
“Carrière Iosephus, French, of the Congregation of St. Sulpice (Greater Theological Lectures, On Contracts, and On Marriage), died 1864.”The 1884 editor of Gury-Ballerini, who added this writer to Haringer's list, marks him + (weighty probabiliorist)	The 1884 editor (Gury-Ballerini), Index of writers, p. XV

Where Our Authors Discuss Him

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“those on justice and contracts by Carriere in France”Vermeersch names his treatises on justice and contracts among the notable special works	Vermeersch, Theologia moralis I, n. 21
“among recent authors, Carriere, Lehmkuhl, Muller, Bouquillon, Ballerini, and Noldin”Tanquerey names him among the recent authors he often kept before his eyes	Tanquerey, Synopsis, Preface (1902)
“wrote learnedly, solidly, and moderately concerning justice and right”	Tanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 54

Works Our Authors Used

Jos. Carriere, Priest of the Seminary of St. Sulpice. - 1) De Justitia et Jure, 3 tomes (Paris, 1839). - 2) De Contractibus; 3 tomes (ibid. 1844). — Marc's list
Carriere, S.S., Praelectiones theologicae majores de Matrimonio, Paris, 1837. — Tanquerey's list
Carriere, Joseph, S.S., 1795-1864, Praelectiones theologiae majores de Justitia et Jure, de Contractibus, Paris, 1839-1844. — Tanquerey's list

In the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)

“Joseph Carrière”, vol. 3, by John Francis Fenlon. Public domain; transcription from Wikisource.

Moral theologian, thirteenth superior of the seminary and Society of Saint-Sulpice, b. 19 February, 1795, at La Panouze-de-Cernon, near Rodez, France; d. at Lyons, 23 April, 1864. He entered the seminary of Saint-Sulpice in 1812, and five years later, at the age of twenty-two, became a member of the society and was ordained priest. The following year he was called to Saint-Sulpice to teach the postgraduate course of moral theology, and, despite his extreme youth, distinguished himself as a brilliant and sound teacher. In 1829 he came to America in the capacity of official visitor to the Sulpician houses; invited to take part in the First Provincial Council of Baltimore, held in that year, he gained admiration there by his learning as well as by his charming and simple character. The works which have given him a place in the history of theology were chiefly published between 1829 and 1850, when he was chosen superior of the society, a position he retained till his death.

Carrière's published writings are: "Dissertation sur la réhabilitation des marriages nuls" (1828-34); "Juris cultor theologus circa obligationes restitutionis", by I. Vogler, S.J., enlarged and adapted to the French Law (1833), and incorporated in Migne's "Theologiae Cursus Completus"; "Praelectiones theologicae: De Matrimonio" (2 vols., Paris, 1837; Louvain, 1838); a compendium of this work (1837), which has had eight editions; "Praelectiones theologicae: De justitia et jure" (3 vols., Paris, 1839; Louvain, 1845), and a compendium (1840) which also reached its eighth edition; "Praelectiones theologicae: De Contractibus (3 vols., Paris, 1844-47; Louvain, 1846-48), of which the compendium (1848) has had four editions. Carrière was the first writer of note to treat theology in its relations to the Napoleonic Code; his expositions of the French Law were so lucid, full, and accurate that they were used as authorities by jurists, and, it is said, are even today so regarded. These qualities characterize his whole work; the opinions he rejects are treated as fairly and almost as fully as those he adopts; his works abound in erudition, but are clear, orderly, precise - admodum eruditae, solidae, accuratae, says Father Hurter, S.J. He was inclined to the opinion, generally held in France in his day, that the State had the power to create diriment impediments to marriage among Catholics; but he abandoned it as soon as it was disapproved at Rome. Conservative in temperament and by education, he was one of the first to combat the ideas of de Lamenais. His position at Saint-Sulpice afforded a wide scope to the influence of his learning and solid judgment, and of his simple and upright nature as well, and made him one of the foremost figures of the French Church in his day.

O'MAHONY, Joseph Carrière (Dublin, 1865); BERTRAND, Histoire littéraire de la c. de Saint-Sulpice (Paris, 1900), II, 272 sq.; LEVESQUE in Dict. de théol. cath. (Paris, 1905).

JOHN F. FENLON