Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Giles de Coninck
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
Jesuit · 1571–1633
In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index
- “Coninck, Aegid., S.J., Belgian (1571-1633). His works pertaining to moral theology are: 1. Commentarii ... in universam doctrinam D. Thomae de sacramentis et censuris, 1 folio volume, 2 tomes, Antwerp 1616, and several times afterward. 2. De moralitate, natura et effectibus actuum supernaturalium in genere, et fide, spe ac caritate speciatim, 1 folio volume, Antwerp 1623. 3. Responsio ad dissertationem impugnantem absolutionem moribundi sensibus destituti, Antwerp 1625.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
- [**: weighty, probabilist] “Coninchius (Koninch) Aegidius, Belgian, S.J., a disciple not unequal to the great Lessius, taught at Louvain (On Human Acts, Faith, Hope, Charity, the Sacraments, Censures), born 1571, died 1633.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XVI, sign read on the page)
His Moral System, as Our Authors Report It
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| Probabilist | |
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| Counted among them by one of our authors | Bucceroni, Commentarii, n. 108 |
| “Coninchius (Koninch) Aegidius, Belgian, S.J., a disciple not unequal to the great Lessius, taught at Louvain (On Human Acts, Faith, Hope, Charity, the Sacraments, Censures), born 1571, died 1633.”Haringer marks him **, giving St. Alphonsus's judgment of him (weighty and probabilist) | Haringer's index, Index of writers, p. XVI |
Where Our Authors Discuss Him
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| “Coninck, S.J. (1633), On the Sacraments and Censures, On the Virtues”Vermeersch on his treatises | Vermeersch, Theologia moralis I, n. 19 |
| “Aegidius Coninck, not an unworthy disciple of Lessius”Tanquerey on his works on the sacraments and the supernatural acts | Tanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 47 |
| “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 |
In the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)
“Giles de Coninck”, vol. 4, by Anthony Maas. Public domain; transcription at New Advent (which expands some of the print's abbreviations).
(Also called Regius).
Jesuit theologian, b. 20 Dec., 1571, at Bailleul in French Flanders; d. 31 May, 1633, at Louvain. At the age of twenty-one he entered the Society of Jesus. During his course of studies at Louvain he had Lessius among his professors, and became the worthy successor of his illustrious teacher in the chair of scholastic theology, which he held for eighteen years. St. Alphonsus considers Coninck a moral theologian of distinction. Though de Lugo impugned his views on many questions, he is acknowledged to have rendered considerable services to moral theology. His style is concise, clear, and direct: on several points his writings are exhaustive. Coninck's principal works are:
"Commentariorum ac disputationum in universam doctrinam D. Thomæ", etc. (Antwerp, 1616; enlarged and revised 1619, 1624; Lyons 1619, 1624, 1625, 1643; Rouen, 1630. The last edition was among the Jesuit works condemned to be torn and burnt by an act of parliament of Rouen, 12 Feb., 1762). "De Moralitate, naturâ et effectibus actuum supernaturalium". etc. (Antwerp, 1623; Lyons, 1623; Paris, 1624. The author is said to have left very ample additions intended to appear in the subsequent editions of the work. Father Müllendorff assures his readers that this treatise may be recommended to the theologians even of today). "Responsio ad dissertationem impugnantem absolutionem moribundi sensibus destituti", etc. (Antwerp, 1625): Disputationes theolgicæ" (Antwerp, 1645, published posthumously, though finished twelve years before the author's death).
Sources: Hurter, Nomenclator (Innsbruck, 1892), I, 361; Müllendorff in Kirchenlex., III, 947; Sommervogel, Bibliothèque de la c. de J., II, 1369 sq.