Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Collet, Petrus
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
Vincentian · 1693–1770
In the Index: Collet, P.
Dates differ: Prümmer 1693–1770; Haringer 1697–1770.
Life
Born 6 September 1693, Ternay, near Montoire (Loir-et-Cher); died 16 October 1770, Paris. [McClintock and Strong]
- Priest of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists); taught theology in several of its houses, and was afterwards principal of the Collège des Bons-Enfants in Paris, where he died (MSC). [McClintock and Strong]
- At Cardinal Fleury's instance he carried on Tournely's theological lectures, the work by which St. Alphonsus calls him 'the continuator of Tournely' (VincentWiki; Prümmer); his own Institutiones theologicae are an abridgement for seminaries (Prümmer: 2 vols. in 4to). [Prümmer, Catalogue of authors; VincentWiki, 'Collet']
- Wrote a Life of St. Vincent de Paul (Nancy, 1748, 2 vols.), printed in Lorraine and without his name because of Jansenist opposition; a determined opponent of Jansenism (VincentWiki). [VincentWiki, 'Collet']
- Wrote also on dispensations and much else in moral and polemical theology (MSC; VincentWiki). [McClintock and Strong; VincentWiki, 'Collet']
- Haringer gives his birth as 1697; the MSC, 6 September 1693 (so Prümmer, 1693). [Prümmer, Catalogue of authors; Haringer's index of writers, p. XV; McClintock and Strong]
Sources: McClintock and Strong, Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature (New York, 1867–1887), as published at biblicalcyclopedia.com; VincentWiki (the Vincentian Family wiki, famvin.org); Prümmer, Manuale theologiae moralis, Catalogue of authors (on this site); Haringer's index of writers, as printed in Gury-Ballerini (1884), on this site. Each fact names where it was read; the links go to the page or entry itself.
In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index
- “Collet, Petrus, of the Congregation of the Mission, French (1693-1770), wrote several things, among which are Institutiones theologicae, 2 volumes in 4to, and Continuatio praelectionum theolog. H. Tournely. By St. Alphonsus he is often called "the continuator of Tournely." He is a rigid author.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
- [+: weighty, probabiliorist] “Collet Petrus, French, continuator of Tournely, born 1697, died 1770.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XV, sign read on the page)
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.
| Probabiliorist | |
|---|---|
| Counted among them by 2 of our authors | Koch-Preuss, Handbook I, the moral systems; Noldin, Summa I, n. 231 |
| “Many testimonies of the Fathers are brought forward which seem to favor probabiliorism, in Collet, Concina, Billuart”Gury-Ballerini: he brings forward testimonies of the Fathers that seem to favor probabiliorism | Gury-Ballerini, Compendium I, n. 66 (objection 3) |
| “Collet Petrus, French, continuator of Tournely, born 1697, died 1770.”Haringer marks him +, giving St. Alphonsus's judgment of him (weighty probabiliorist) | Haringer's index, Index of writers, p. XV |
| Rigid in his opinions | |
| Counted among them by one of our authors | Marc, Institutiones I, n. 6 |
| “He is a rigid author”Prümmer, after St. Alphonsus: a rigid author | Prümmer, Catalogue of authors |
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.
| “Collet (1770)”Vermeersch names him among the distinguished theologians of the age before St. Alphonsus, an age he calls morbid | Vermeersch, Theologia moralis I, n. 20 |
| “P. Collet, Cong. Miss.: Institutions of Moral Theology, 1758”Tanquerey names him among the theologians outside the schools | Tanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 54 |
| “Now he is esteemed a great theologian who possesses the greatest authority among theologians on account of his distinguished doctrine, prudence, and probity”Konings names him among the great theologians whose word that an opinion is probable makes it so | Konings, Compendium, n. 57 |
Works Our Authors Used
- Petrus Collet, Congregation of the Mission, Institutiones theologicae; 2 vols. 4to. (Venice, 1784). — Marc's list
- Collet, Tractatus de Paenitentia, in Migne, Theologiae Cursus Completus, vol. XXII, Paris, 1840. — Tanquerey's list
- Collet, Petrus, 1697-1770, Theologia moralis universa, Paris; Institutiones theologiae moralis, Paris, 1745; Traite de l'office divin, Paris. — Tanquerey's list
Named in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)
The Encyclopedia gives him no article of his own; these are the places where its articles speak of him. Public domain; transcription from Wikisource.
- “Several of these treatises have been abridged for use in seminaries, and they still appear in Tournély's name, but they are in reality the work of Montagne, Robinet, and Collet.” — “Honoré Tournély”, vol. 14, by Antoine Dégert