Mausbach, Ios.

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1861–1931

In the Index: Mausbach

Life

Born 7 February 1861, Wipperfeld; died 31 January 1931, Ahrweiler. [New Catholic Encyclopedia]

Ordained 1884; in the pastoral ministry at Cologne until 1892; then for nearly forty years professor of moral theology and apologetics at Münster; influential in the Weimar National Assembly. [New Catholic Encyclopedia]
Drew on St. Augustine and St. Thomas: Die katholische Moral (1901; English, Catholic Moral Teaching and Its Antagonists, 1914), Die Ethik des hl. Augustinus (1909), Thomas von Aquin als Meister christlicher Sittenlehre (1925). [New Catholic Encyclopedia]
His Katholische Moraltheologie (3 vols., Münster, 1915-1918) reached a 10th edition under G. Ermecke (1961). [New Catholic Encyclopedia]

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In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index

“Mausbach, Ios., German (1861-1931), published several moral works furnished with beautiful style and solid doctrine, for example Thomae Aq. de voluntate et appetitu sensitivo doctrina, Die Ethik des hl. Augustinus, Katholische Moraltheologie, and so forth.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors

Where Our Authors Discuss Him

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“Besides, the same Pontiff ordered that the theology of Fr. Antoine, S.J., a vigorous Probabiliorist, be expounded in the Seminary of Propaganda Fide. Clement XIII on 26 Feb. 1761, through a Decree of the Holy Office, condemned a sheet containing several theses favoring the system of Probabilism; indeed, the proposition, "Probabilism was supremely familiar to Christ the Lord," he specially condemned as erroneous and proximate to heresy. - From all these things it clearly appears how rightly Thyrsus Gonzalez wrote in the supplicatory little book offered to Clement XI in the year 1702: "It is certain that the Apostolic See has always inclined more toward the opinion contrary to Probabilism." The same is thought by Mausbach, Sawicki, Koch, Schmuckenschlager, Liese, Vinati, and very many others among the moderns.”Prümmer names him among the moderns who think the Holy See has always inclined against probabilism

Prümmer, Manuale I, n. 345

“To these sayings consent, besides the alumni of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, very many distinguished theologians, such as Bellesheim (Katholik, 1891, II, p. 245), who thus speaks: "The texts are thus clearer than the midday light, so weighty, that an opponent must be silent: St. Alphonsus truly taught equiprobabilism." The same testify Schneider (Liter. Rundschau, 1895, col. 202), Koch (Tubing. Quart. Schr., 1897, p. 70-126), Mausbach (Die kath. Moral, p. 181), Berardi (Theol. fund., 1905, I, n. 55), Tanquerey (I, n. 405), Sweens (Theol. mor., 688).”Marc names him among the theologians who testify that St. Alphonsus was an equiprobabilist

Marc, Institutiones I, n. 87

No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).