Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Ioannes Maior
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
Life
Born 1469 (Encyclopedia of Philosophy); died 1550. [Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
- John Major (Mair), Scottish theologian and philosopher; studied at Cambridge and came to Paris in 1493, where he took the licence in theology in 1506 and taught for most of his life, save seven years at Glasgow and St Andrews. He helped revive fourteenth-century nominalism, wrote a History of Greater Britain, and was a conciliarist and champion of Gallicanism (Encyclopedia of Philosophy). [Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
- Haringer: 'professor at Paris, about 1528'; no sign. [Haringer's index of writers, p. XX]
Sources: Encyclopedia of Philosophy (N. W. Gilbert, 1967; bibliography by T. Frei, 2005), as published on Encyclopedia.com; 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
- “Ioannes Maior, professor at Paris, around 1528.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XX, 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 | |
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| “At the beginning several profess probabiliorism, especially from the Dominican school, as Sylvester Prierias and Cajetan; also outside this school, as John Major”Merkelbach: at the beginning of the sixteenth century he professes probabiliorism | Merkelbach, Summa II, excursus on the moral systems |
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).