Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Christian Lupus
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
Augustinian · 1612–1681
In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index
- [**: weighty, probabilist] “Lupus Christianus, Flemish, of the Order of St. Augustine. Clement IX esteemed him highly and wished to raise him to the episcopate; but he preferred to remain at Louvain, where he was professor and dean of the faculty; born 1612, died 1681.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XXIII, 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.
Our authors disagree. Probabilist: Bucceroni, Haringer's index, Tanquerey. Against probabilism: Concina.
| Probabilist | |
|---|---|
| Counted among them by 2 of our authors | Bucceroni, Commentarii, n. 108; Tanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 397 |
| “And Christian Lupus, Opp., tom. 11, disp. 1, shows that the reason for resolving moral questions in doubtful matters by the principles and method of probabilism was familiar even to the most ancient Fathers.”Bucceroni: he showed the method of probabilism familiar to the most ancient Fathers | Bucceroni, Commentarii, n. 111 |
| “Lupus Christianus, Flemish, of the Order of St. Augustine. Clement IX esteemed him highly and wished to raise him to the episcopate; but he preferred to remain at Louvain, where he was professor and dean of the faculty; born 1612, died 1681.”Haringer marks him **, giving St. Alphonsus's judgment of him (weighty and probabilist) | Haringer's index, Index of writers, p. XXIII |
| Against probabilism | |
| Counted among them by one of our authors | Concina, Compendium II, diss. II, ch. IX, n. VI |
Where Our Authors Discuss Him
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| “But in the year 1677 four Louvain professors, M. Steyaert, Chr. Wolf or Lupus, Fr. van Viaene, and P. L. Ledrou, go to Rome so that they might obtain from Innocent XI the condemnation of lax propositions; and in fact he condemned 65 in the year 1679.”Merkelbach names him among the four Louvain professors who went to Rome in 1677 to obtain the condemnation of lax propositions | Merkelbach, Summa II, excursus on the moral systems |
In the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)
“Christian Lupus”, vol. 9, by Patricius Schlager. Public domain; transcription at New Advent (which expands some of the print's abbreviations).
(WOLF)
Historian, b. at Ypres (Flanders), 23 July, 1612; d. at Louvain, 10 July, 1681. He joined the Augustinian Order at the age of fifteen, and on the completion of his studies, was appointed lecturer in theology, to the younger members of the order at Cologne. While occupying this position he won the confidence of the nuncio, Fabio Chigi, afterwards Alexander VII. In 1640 Lupus was appointed professor of theology at Louvain, but, owing to his zeal for the teaching of St. Augustine, was suspected of Jansenism. The nuncio at Brussels accused him of it, and would not permit the University of Louvain to confer a doctor's degree upon him; only after the pope's mediation was it given to him. When the accusation was renewed, Alexander VII called him to Rome, where for the next five years he devoted himself under papal protection to the study of ecclesiastical history. He returned to Louvain in 1660, and was elected provincial of the Belgian province; in 1667 he returned to Rome, accompanied by several professors of the theological faculty of Louvain, to obtain the censure of a number of erroneous moral doctrines. Innocent XI condemned sixty-five of the propositions denounced by him. On his return to Louvain he was appointed regius professor of theology, the first time a religious had ever held this office. His writings were published in thirteen parts, the first twelve at Venice, 1724-1729, in six folio volumes, the thirteenth at Bologna, in 1742. The first six under the title "Synodorum generalium et provincialium statuta et canones cum notis et historicis dissertationibus" (1665-1673) contain a detailed history of the councils, with many learned dissertations. The seventh part contains: "Ad Ephesinum concilium variorum patrum epistolas, item commonitorium Coelestini papae, titulos decretorum Hilarii papae" (Louvain, 1682). He also wrote critical replies to Quesnel, Boileau, and Gerbais. His writings, however, are mostly collections of historical materials, usually but little elaborated by him.