Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Viktor Cathrein
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
S.J. · Jesuit · 1845–1931
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His Moral System
Not a treatise of moral theology — His work on this site does not treat the moral systems.
Life
Born 8 May 1845, Brig, Valais, Switzerland; died 10 September 1931, Aachen. [The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. 28; New Catholic Encyclopedia]
- Entered the Society of Jesus 1863; ordained 1877; expelled from Germany under the law against the Jesuits, 1872. [The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. 28]
- On the staff of Stimmen aus Maria-Laach 1879–1882; professor of ethics at the Jesuit scholasticates of Blyenbeck, Exaten and Valkenburg, 1882–1912. [The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. 28]
- A leading neo-Thomist; opposed positivism in ethics and law and the separation of morality from religion. [New Catholic Encyclopedia]
- Moralphilosophie (2 vols., 1890–91); Der Sozialismus (1890; many editions and languages); Philosophia moralis (1893). [The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. 28; New Catholic Encyclopedia]
Sources: The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers (New York, 1917), lives of the contributors (archive.org cu31924063262053); 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
- “wrote learnedly and neatly several works” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).